Experience

Software Competence Center Hagenberg

• Austria
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Director

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  Founded 1999, SCCH (www.scch.at, ~65 FTE) is an Austrian non-university RTO participating in the Austrian program of Competence Centers of Excellence Technologies (COMET). SCCH focuses on smart software by bringing together software and data science, particularly machine and deep learning. • data integrity problems (e.g., adversarial examples), • safety problems (e.g., confidence measure, interpretability), • test coverage problems (e.g., by transfer learning), • privacy protection problems (e.g., for distributed learning), • engineering problems (e.g., debugging, reproducibility, doc generation). Selected application domains: • data-intensive systems, e.g. large-scale optimization in combination with (deep) reinforcement learning and decentralized optimization strategies; behavioral analytics for traffic/urban/environmental/security scene analysis • software-intensive systems in the banking and automation industry Reference Projects: • S3AI (Austrian COMET Module, Secure and Safe Shared AI): fundamental research project on privacy preserving collaborative learning by deep model design (3,7 Mio€, 4 years, SCCH: coordination; to start in January 2020) • COGNIPLANT (H2020, IA, DT-SPIRE-06-2019) on advanced analytics and cognitive reasoning for process industry is about to start • SERUMS (H2020 RIA, SU-TDS-02-2018) on privacy-preserving distributed data analytics for securing medical data in smart patient-centric healthcare • ALOHA (H2020 RIA, ICT-05-2017) on deep learning on the edge (SCCH: training engine) • TRESSPASS (H2020 IA, SEC-15-BES-2017) on border control (SCCH: behavioral analytics) Show less



Software Competence Center Hagenberg

• Head of Research Focus and Scientific Coordinator

  • Jan 2005 - Oct 2019