Damian Borth is the Founding Director of the Deep Learning Competence Center at the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). After completing his doctorate at the University of Kaiserslautern. He was visiting scholar at Columbia University postdoctoral researcher at the UC Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). He is a member of several steering committees such as the Volkswagen Foundation and the "AI for Good" Foundation. Borth has received several academic best paper awards, as well as the McKinsey Business Technology Award and NVIDIA AI Award. In September 2018, Damian Borth will become the newly established Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

During his stay at The Thomas Mann House, he will participate in a conference on Artificial Intelligence in Los Angeles.