Dr. Anna Beer

Anna Beer, PhD has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at WVPU since March 2026. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and at Aarhus University, Denmark. She received her doctorate in Computer Science from LMU Munich in 2021.

Her research focuses on fundamental problems in data mining and unsupervised machine learning, with an emphasis on clustering and evaluation methods. While developing theoretically grounded and elegant solutions to complex problems is a core aspect of her work, she is also interested in interdisciplinary projects. At Aarhus University, she worked on methods for analyzing molecular dynamics data, and her current research addresses challenges arising in astrophysical data.

Her research interests include clustering with a focus on density-based methods (and spectral and hierarchical clustering); evaluation of data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence; unsupervised machine learning; fairness in machine learning.