Held engineering and leadership roles in the automotive industry prior to joining ZHAW
Currently Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) and head of the Machine Perception and Cognition group at ZHAW
Co-founder and board member of AlpineAI AG and ZHAW Datalab; pioneered several other organizations
Leads project-based research on representation learning for pattern recognition across image, audio, and signal data
Applications include predictive maintenance, speaker diarization, document analysis, optical music recognition, industrial computer vision, AutoML, and deep reinforcement learning
Background
Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the ZHAW School of Engineering
Holder of the Chair of Engineering-Information, Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI)
Head of the Machine Perception and Cognition research group
Research interests include robust representation learning in deep neural networks, learning structured and actionable representations for world models, and societal impacts of AI
Engages in interdisciplinary work on AI ethics and societal implications