Thilo Stadelmann is professor of artificial intelligence and machine learning at the ZHAW School of Engineering in Winterthur, director of the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence and head of its Machine Perception and Cognition Group

I am a computer scientist by training, an AI guy by passion, and a machine perception researcher by area of study. My research interests revolve around general principles for learning algorithms in machine learning for pattern recognition. I approach these by means of use cases from very diverse areas, e.g. multimedia analysis, speech and audio processing, medical informatics, document recognition, predictive maintenance, automated game playing, data mining, driving assistants, computer vision, face recognition, ...

I hold engineering and leadership roles in the automotive industry for 3 years prior to switching back to academia. I am a fellow of the European Centre for Living Technology in Venice, Italy, founder of AlpineAI that builds SwissGPT for businesses, co-founder of Switzerland’s largest innovation network, the data innovation alliance, and of the ZHAW Datalab, one of Europe’s first dedicated research hubs for data science.

My book "Applied Data Science - Lessons Learned for the Data-driven Business" was published 2019 by Springer, a pre-print on "A Theory of Natural Intelligence" that informs a future roadmap for machine learning research was released recently.