Dr. Nicolas Pfeuffer

Nicolas Pfeuffer studied Business Informatics at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (M.Sc.). During his master’s program, he focused on Big Data and Human-Computer Interaction. Prior to his master’s degree, he completed his bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics (B.Sc.) at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt. His focus in the bachelor’s program was on mobile markets as well as on mobile application development.

Nicolas Pfeuffer was a visiting student at Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley after obtaining his bachelor’s degree and also at Harvard University, Cambridge during his master’s program.

Since December 2017, Nicolas Pfeuffer is a research assistant at the professorship of Prof. Dr. Oliver Hinz, at the Chair of Information Systems and Information Management.

His research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI), human-machine interaction (HCI) and data science. Among other things, he deals with the implementation and HCI to AI-based conversational agents as well as the emergence, effects and treatment of algorithmic discrimination by machine learning-based systems.

Nicolas served as as a reviewer for the KI-Journal (Künstliche Intelligenz), the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS, HCI Track), the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), the American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), as well as the Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI,HCI + AI-Track).