Ute Maria Schmid (born 1965)[1] is a German computer scientist whose research interests include interpretable artificial intelligence and inductive programming.
She studied psychology at the Erziehungswissenschaftlichen Hochschule Landau (which became part of the University of Koblenz and Landau and later the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau) and at Technische Universität Berlin, earning a diploma through TU Berlin in 1989.
in 1994,[2] with a dissertation jointly supervised by computer scientist Bernd Mahr [de] and psychologist Klaus Eyferth.
She took her present position as a professor at the University of Bamberg in 2004, and served as dean of the Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences from 2017 to 2019.
[2] Schmid is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence,[5] elected in 2022.