Born	27.07.1969, Memmingen
Grammar School	TG Biberach, finished May, 1989
University	Study of Communication Technology at University of Ulm, finished December, 1994
PH.D	Research Work on Coding and Cryptography at the Instiute of Information Technology, University of Ulm, finished December 1999
Ascom Systec AG, Switzerland	Research Engineer: Design, modelling and simulation of terrestrial and satellite UMTS networks Project Manager Head of Technology Area Digital Communications Head of Market Area Satellite Communications
HdM Stuttgart	Since September, 2004 Professor at department of Media Computer Science. Lectures: Artificial Intelligence Data Mining and Pattern Recognition Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Object Recognition in Image and Video Artificial Intelligence for Games Research Topics: Distributional Semantics Deep Neural Networks for Language Models and Text Classification
Family Status	Married, 2 kids
Favourites	Long Distance Running: Marathon PB 2.36.58h; Half-Marathon PB 1.15.35h Cycling Skiing Literature