Senior Researcher Dr. Christian Müller is leading the automotive IUI projects CARMINA, SIM-TD, and various related industry projects. His research focus is user-adaptive multimodal HMI (Human-Machine Interface) with a special focus on speaker classification, which is seen as a source of information for non-intrusive user modeling. Application areas of his research are primarily automotive interfaces and telecommunication applications. From 2006 to 2008, he has been a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California. Dr. Müller earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Saarland University in January 2006.