Education
Sabine holds a Master in Engineering and Management Science (University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany), a Master of Commerce with a specialization in Marketing and Entrepreneurship (UNSW, Sydney, Australia), and a PhD in Engineering Sciences (University of Stuttgart, Germany).
Biography
Prof. Sabine Brunswicker is an internationally recognized scholar in digital innovation, and an interdisciplinarytrained computational socio-technical scientist whose work bridges AI, machine and deep learning (ML/DL),decision sciences as well as complex systems engineering. She is a Full Professor at Purdue University and theFounder of the Center for Artificial Intelligence for Digital, Autonomous, and Augmented Aviation (AIDA3), asa consortium of Purdue University and Windracers LLC, an entrepreneurial company producing the heavy-liftULTRA drone. She also launched AIrTonomy, a cyber-physical infrastructure program for rapid experimentationand safety verification of AI-enabled autonomy for aviation. Before joining Purdue, she led a research group atthe Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany’s largest research organization, promoting user-inspired research.
Her and her collaborators’ recent research focuses on deep learning for the design and understanding of com-plex, cyber-physical systems, with a focus on human-autonomy teaming, guided by the goal to ensure safety,trustworthy, and interpretable interactions in distributed intelligence and control. For example, she studies gener-ative AI and natural language interfaces for drone operators, integrates formal logic in learning-based approachesfor safety verification, builds new neuro-symbolic architectures for model-predictive control, and explores quantum-enhanced machine learning for belief inference in adversarial situations. Beyond scientific curiosity, one of herpassions is to form and build interdisciplinary research teams that seek to solve grant challenges and build trans-formative experimental testbeds, guided by principles of user-inspired basic research and a lab-to-life vision.
Dr. Brunswicker’s work has appeared in impact journals and conferences spanning disciplines such as infor-mation systems, artificial intelligence, NLP, human-computer interaction, aviation research, health informatics,and also innovation sciences (e.g. EMNLP, AAAI, Neurocomputing, Computers in Human Behavior, Big DataResearch, Scientometrics, GIQ, JASIST, AIAA SciTech, JMIR, MISQ, Research Policy, ICC, Technovation, IJIM).
Her work has been supported by many federal agencies (NSF, NIH, DARPA, the European Commission),foundations and industry donations. As a user-inspired researcher she works closely with engineers and scientistsin industry and defense organizations, including Windracers LLC, Saab Inc., Accenture, Red Hat, Navy Researchand others. Further, she has extensive experience in communicating with policy makers to seek support fortransformative research and infrastructure efforts. She is also regular invited guest speaker at events organizedby the World Economic Forum, NSF, AUVSI Association, and other institutions. In November 2025, the GermanInvestment Forum nominated her as one of the Top 32 German AI Experts to be considered for a Global AI expertaward.
