Florian Kern, M.Sc.

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He is employed at the PIIS group, where he is responsible for developing and providing an AI server for embodied conversational AI in XR as part of the AIL AT WORK project. He is also a member of the Reality Stack team, which develops reusable and publicly available XR software components. Previously, he worked on the interdisciplinary ViLeArn project, where he developed and researched a social XR platform for collaborative teaching and learning.

Florian holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction. His master’s thesis, supervised by Prof. Dr. Marc Erich Latoschik, explored using virtual reality and gamification within procedurally generated environments to enhance motivation during treadmill training for gait rehabilitation.

He received a B.Sc. in Information Systems and Management from Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm. His thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Ramin Tavakoli Kolagari and conducted in cooperation with Elektrobit Automotive GmbH, Tennenlohe, where he developed a simulation framework for connected car management services.