Jilles is the leader of the Independent Research Group on Exploratory Data Analysis at the DFG Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland University. In addition, he is affiliated as Senior Researcher with the Database and Information Systems group of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

His research is mainly concerned with exploratory data mining. That is, developing theory and algorithms for summarising data in easily understandable terms. To identify what you need to know, i.e., what is the most interesting structure in the data, he often employs information theoretic methods. In particular, the principles of Minimum Description Length (MDL) and Maximum Entropy have proven to be highly valuable tools.

Currently he is investigating techniques for identifying informative local structures in large collections of complex data; how to efficiently mine good data descriptions directly such data; how to mine very large graphs, including characterising influence propagation in social networks; and, last but not least, how to determine cause and effect, i.e. causal inference and modelling.

Mario is a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with the Exploratory Data Analysis group, the Theory department at the Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin, as well as with the Knowledge Discovery department of Frauenhofer IAIS in Sankt Augustin.

His research activities can be characterized, on the one hand, by the quest for a sound theoretical understanding of research questions, and, on the other hand, by the practical application of research results to real-world problems. Therefore, he continuously pursues the integration of theoretical insights into robust and reusable software artifacts.

He currently works on the Novel Material Discovery (NoMaD) project, where we use data mining techniques such as subgroup discovery and correlation analysis to discover knowledge on why materials have certain properties.

Kailash Budhathoki is a PhD student, funded by a grant from IMPRS-CS, the International Max-Planck Research School for Computer Science. His research interests include how to discover assocations, correlations, and causation from data by means of algorithmic information theory.

Kailash obtained his Bachelor's degree in 2010 from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. In 2013 he joined Saarland University to pursue a Master of Science in Computer Science. He joined the EDA group in October 2014 as a Research Assistant. In 2015 he was awarded an honours degree for his thesis 'Correlation by Compression'.

Janis Kalofolias is a PhD student. His research interests include many things, including optimistic estimators for subgroup discovery, as well as information theoretic methods for subjectively interesting structure from complex data.

Janis obtained his Bachelor of Science in 2011 from the University of Patras, Greece. In 2012 he joined Saarland University to pursue a Master of Science in Computer Science, and was a Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. He joined the EDA group as a PhD student in November 2016.

Panagiotis Mandros is a PhD student, funded by a grant from IMPRS-CS, the International Max-Planck Research School for Computer Science. His research interests include combining probabilistic and information theoretic methods to discover knowledge from complex data.

Panagiotis obtained his Bachelor of Science in 2012 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. In 2013 he joined Saarland University to pursue a Master of Science in Computer Science as an IMPRS-CS student. He joined the EDA group in October 2014 as a Research Assistant. In 2015 he was awarded an honours degree for his thesis 'Information-Theoretic Supervised Feature Selection for Continuous-Valued Data'.

Alexander Marx is a PhD student in the EDA group, who is broadly interested in data mining, but specifically in subgroup discovery, correlation analysis, and influence propagation.

Alex studied Bioinformatics at Saarland University, obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree in 2014, and his Master of Science in 2016. He afterwards joined the EDA group in May 2016 to further study the algorithmic aspects of data analysis.

Maha Aburahma is pursuing her Master of Science in Informatics at Saarland University, and a student within the Saarbrücken Graduate School on Computer Science. She is currently working on her Master thesis with the topic of information theoretic denoising.

Maha did her Bachelor degree in Egypt. She joined the EDA group in April 2017.

Amirhossein Baradaransharourdi is a Research Assistant in the EDA group, working on the topic of efficiently discovering non-linearly correlated segments in multivariate sequences.

Amir obtained his Bachelor of Science from the Islamic Azad University of Mashhad (IAUM) after which he joined Saarland University to pursue his Master's degree. Before joining the EDA group in November 2015 he worked as a Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. He obtained his Master of Science degree in 2016 from Saarland University, for his thesis 'Efficiently Discovering the Highest Correlated Segments in Multivariate Time Series'.

Iva Baykova is pursuing her Master of Science in Informatics at Saarland University. She is currently working on her Master thesis with the topic of efficiently noise-resistant summarisation.

Iva obtained her Bachelor of Science in Informatics from Saarland University. She joined the EDA group in August 2016.

Yuliia Brendel is pursuing her Master of Science in Informatics at Saarland University. She is currently working on her Master thesis with the topic of robust estimation of cumulative entropy.

Yuliia obtained her Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, with honours, from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She joined the EDA group in January 2017.

Simina is pursuing her Master of Science in Informatics at Saarland University. She is currently working on her Master thesis with the topic of structure functions and privacy.

Simina obtained her Bachelor of Science from the West University of Timisoara in Romania for her thesis `The experimental analysis of several approximation algorithms'. She started her Master studies in Saarbrücken in October 2015, and joined the EDA group in January 2017.

Tatiana Dembelova is pursuing her Master of Science in Informatics at Saarland University. She is currently working on her Master thesis with the topic of interaction-aware discretisation.

Tatiana obtained her Bachelor degree in Information Systems and Technologies from the Moscow State University of Railways Engineering. She joined the EDA group in March 2017.

Maike Eissfeller is pursuing her Master of Science in Informatics at Saarland University. She is currently working on her Master thesis with the topic of reliably and robustly reverse-engineering the sources of epidemics in large graphs.

Maike obtained her Bachelor of Science in Informatics from Saarland University. She joined the EDA group in December 2016.

Patrick Ferber is pursuing his Master of Science in Informatics at Saarland University. He is a Research Assistant working on the topic of summarising large and complex graphs.

Patrick obtained his Bachelor of Science in Informatics from the University of Luxemburg in 2015. Right after he started his Master studies at Saarland University. He has been a Research Assistant in the EDA group since May 2016.

Jonas Fischer is working on his Master thesis in Bioinformatics, while at the same time a student of the Saarland University Graduate School of Computer Science. He is currently a Research Assistant working on the topic of influence propagation and epidemics reconstruction in large graphs.

Jonas obtained his Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics from Saarland University in 2015. He joined the EDA group in April 2016 for a Research Immersion lab, and is now working towards a publication on the topic.

Magnus Halbe is pursuing his Master of Science degree in Informatics at Saarland University. He is currently a Research Assistant working on effective and efficient summarisation of complex databases.

Magnus obtained his Bachelor of Science in Informatics from Saarland University in 2016 for his thesis 'Skim: Alternative Candidate Selections for Slim through Sketching'. He joined the EDA group in April 2016.

Michael A. Hedderich is pursuing his Master of Science in Informatics at Saarland University. He is a Research Assistant working on the topic of discovering and describing sub-populations in large databases.

Michael obtained his Bachelor of Science in Informatics from the University of Mainz in 2015. Right after he started his Master studies at Saarland University. He has been a Research Assistant in the EDA group since October 2016. He is currently working on this Master thesis at Rutgers University, NJ, USA.

Frauke Hinrichs is pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Informatics at Saarland University, and a Research Assistant in the EDA group. She recently finished her Bachelor thesis on the topic of joint summarisation of multiple sequence databases.

Frauke joined the EDA group in April 2016.

Benjamin Hättasch is pursuing a Master of Science in Informatics, as well as one in Internet and Web-based Systems, both at TU Darmstadt. He is currently working on his Master thesis within the EDA group on the topic of information theoretic approaches to efficiently discovering good ontologies.

Benjamin obtained his Bachelor of Science in Informatics in 2014 from the Technische Universität Darmstadt for his thesis 'A Railway Driving Cab for Scientific Application'. He joined the EDA group in April 2017.

Henrik Jilke is pursuing his Master of Science in Informatics at Saarland University. He is currently working on his Master thesis on the topic of non-clique community discovery in large graphs.

Henrik obtained his Bachelor of Science in Informatics from the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz. He joined the EDA group in March 2017.