pronouns: she/her spoken languages: English  and German

Main Research Focus

• explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
• analyzing and visualizing Deep Learning models (aka Introspection)

Further Interests

• visualizing and communicating science

Academic Experience

• Since 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher at the AI Lab, OVGU
• 2019 - 2024: Researcher/PhD student at the AI Lab, OVGU
• 2016 - 2019: Researcher/PhD student at the Machine Learning in Cognitive Science Lab, University of Potsdam
• 2013 - 2016: Master of Science "Bioinformatics", University of Potsdam
• 2010 - 2013: Bachelor of Science "Biotechnology/Bioinformatics", Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

Selected Publications:

• Relation of Activity and Confidence When Training Deep Neural Networks
  Valerie Krug, Christopher Olson, Sebastian Stober.
  In: Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. ECML PKDD 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2134, 2025
  [URL]
  

• Neuroscience-Inspired Analysis and Visualization of Deep Neural Networks.
  Valerie Krug.
  Dissertation/PhD thesis, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Fakultät für Informatik, 2024.
  [URL]

• Visualizing Deep Neural Networks with Topographic Activation Maps.
  Valerie Krug; Raihan Kabir Ratul; Christopher Olson & Sebastian Stober.
  In HHAI 2023: Augmenting Human Intellect. IOS Press, 2023. 138-152.
  [URL] [github]

• Analyzing and Visualizing Deep Neural Networks for Speech Recognition with Saliency-Adjusted Neuron Activation Profiles.
  Valerie Krug; Maral Ebrahimzadeh; Jost Alemann; Jens Johannsmeier & Sebastian Stober.
  In: Electronics 10 (11), 1350, 2021.
  [URL]