Dr. Philipp Müller, Independent Group Leader (incoming) at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, is a researcher working at the intersection of multi-modal machine learning, psychology, and human-machine interaction. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Computer Science from Saarland University. After staying as Visiting Student Researcher at Stanford University, he conducted his PhD research at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics on “Sensing, Interpreting, and Anticipating Human Social Behavior in the Real World”. Subsequently, he worked at the University of Stuttgart and now is a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken. The goal of his current research is to build the foundations for effective human-machine interaction by advancing the capabilities to analyze multi-modal human behavior. He authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications at computer science and psychology venues, including top conferences such as CHI, NeurIPS, ICCV, and ACM Multimedia. Since 2021, he is an organizer of the yearly ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge “MultiMediate” on automatic social behavior analysis.