Daniel Hendriks graduated from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with a Bachelor’s in Business Engineering and a Master’s in Economics and Engineering. During his master’s, he focused on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and worked as a research assistant at KSRI. His master’s thesis on model distillation led him to join the Applied AI Lab in July 2024 as a research associate, where he conducts research with Trelleborg as the strategic partner.

Research Focus

• Technical and Human Factors of AI Adoption
• Explainable AI for Large Language Models
• Hallucinations and Uncertainty in Large Language Models
• Human-Computer Interaction

Project

• Reliable AI Adoption in Organizations (with Trelleborg Sealing Solutions)

Teaching

• Artificial Intelligence in Service Systems (WS 24/25)
• Data Science Challenge (SS 2025)