Professor in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Contact Details

Education
- [2004 – 2008] PhD
Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg
Title: A generic Architecture for Local Computation
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürg Kohlas - [2002 – 2004] Master of Science in Computer Science
Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg
English study program
Best average grade in Computer Science and Mathematics - [1999 – 2002] Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg
Minor in Mathematics
German and French study program
Employment
- [since 2023] Scientific Advisor
AlpineAI AG, Davos - [since 2023] Scientific Advisor
Artificialy SA, Lugano - [since 2021] Member of the Executive Board and Chief Data Scientist
Jaywalker AG, Lucerne - [since 2020] Lecturer for Machine Learning in Marketing
University of Lucerne - [since 2018] Business Consultant
Private mandates - [since 2018] Professional Speaker
speakers.ch, Zurich - [since 2015] Member of the Board of Directors and Partner
Jaywalker Digital AG, Lucerne - [since 2016] Co-Head Algorithmic Business Research Lab
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences - [since 2013] Professor for Artificial Intelligence
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences - [2016 – 2021] Head of Master’s Program in Engineering
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences - [2011 – 2013] Lecturer for Artificial Intelligence
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences - [2010 – 2011] Research Associate
Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg - [2009 – 2010] Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc
Cork Constraint Computation Center, University College Cork - [2004 – 2009] Research Assistant
Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg
Awards & Distinctions
- [2023] Best Poster Video Award at Swiss Data Science Conference
Zurich 2023 (link) - [2022] Best Paper in Track at AMA Winter Academic Conference
Las Vegas 2022 (link) - [2021] AI Beer on Research Mosaic
Research project ranked first by swissuniversities.ch (link) - [2017] Aha! Award of the Swiss Allergy Centre
Research on Eczema Quantification with Machine Learning - [2011] Finalist of the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award
Research on Generic Inference in Artificial Intelligence - [2008] Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science
University of Fribourg
Other Activities
- Management Board Member of Institute for Marketing & Analytics, University of Lucerne
- PhD co-supervisor at ETH Zurich
- PhD co-supervisor at the University of Basel
- PhD co-supervisor at the University of Lucerne
- Reviewer for various scientific journals
- Member of various scientific conference program committees
Competences
- Algorithmic Business & Data Strategy
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning
- Generative Models
- Data Science and Analytics
- Industrial Optimization
- Customer Profiling for Digital Commerce
- Recommender Systems
- Cryptographic Protocols for virtual Currencies & Loyalty