Professor Wrobel has been working for many years on aspects of digitization, in particular on intelligent algorithms and systems for analyzing large amounts of data and the influence of Big Data/Smart Data on the use of information in companies and society. He is the author of a large number of publications in the fields of data mining and machine learning, a member of the editorial board of several leading journals, and a founding member of the "International Machine Learning Society". He was honored by the German Informatics Society as one of the formative minds in the history of German AI.
As spokesperson of the "Fraunhofer Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Alliance", director of the "Fraunhofer Research Center Machine Learning", co-spokesperson of the Rhine-Ruhr Machine Learning Competence Center (ML2R), vice-chairman of the "Fraunhofer Information and Communication Technology Alliance" and spokesperson of the "Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Machine Learning" expert group of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Informatics Society), he is committed nationally and internationally to the topics of digitization, intelligent use of Big Data and artificial intelligence.