Bjorn Schuller
Björn W. Schuller (born April 18, 1975 in Munich ) is a German scientist in electrical engineering, information technology and computer science and an entrepreneur. He is a university professor for Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College London in England and holds the Chair for Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing at the University of Augsburg . He was a university professor and holder of the chair for Complex & Intelligent Systems at the University of Passau . He is also the co-founding managing director of audEERING GmbH in Gilchingnear Munich as well as permanent visiting professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in the People's Republic of China and associate of the CISA at the University of Geneva in French-speaking Switzerland.
Career
Björn Wolfgang Schuller was born in 1975 in Munich, Germany. After graduating from high school in 1994, the diploma followed in 1999, the doctorate to Dr.-Ing. in 2006 and the habilitation in the field of signal processing and machine intelligence as well as granting the license to teach as a private lecturer in 2012 - each in electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich , Germany. There he headed the Machine Intelligence & Signal Processing Group at the chair for human-machine communication as a scientific assistant , academic councilor and senior councilor as well as junior fellow. From 2009 to 2010 he worked as a computer science scientist at the French CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay near Paris and as a visiting scientist in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London in Great Britain. In 2011 he was an ERASMUS lecturer at the University of Ancona, Italy, and a guest at NICTA in Sydney, Australia. In 2012, he worked as a visiting key researcher at the Institute for Information Technology and Communication Technology at Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH in Graz, Austria, for which he continued to work as a consultant. At the end of 2012, audEERING GmbH , based in Gilching near Munich, was co-founded, where he has been managing director since then. The startup of the Technical University of Munich deals with solutions for intelligent audio analysis and counts well-known national and international companies among its customers. In 2013 he was honored as a permanent visiting professor at the Chinese Harbin Institute of Technology, was a visiting professor at CISA at the University of Geneva and was subsequently promoted to associate. He also represented the new chair for computer science with a focus on sensor technology at the University of Passau. Appointments were made to Great Britain in Edinburgh and London - he accepted a position as Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, which promoted him to Reader in Machine Learning in 2015. In 2014 he accepted a call to the University of Passau as full professor of the newly introduced chair for Complex & Intelligent Systems (initially Chair for Computer Science with a focus on Complex Systems Engineering). In 2017 he accepted a professorship for Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing at the Faculty of Applied Computer Science at the University of Augsburg.
Schuller was elected President of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) - the international association for affective computing registered as a charity in the UK. He is Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and has been a. a. General Chair of the ACM ICMI 2014.
Schuller coordinated the European ASC-Inclusion project and was Principal Investigator in a number of European (including ARIA-VALUSPA, De-ENIGMA, iHEARu, MixedEmotions, PROPEREMO, SEMAINE, SEWA) and national collaborative projects (including EmotAss).
Act
His main research interests are in the areas of machine intelligence, signal processing with a focus on audio signals, affective computing and complex systems . Schuller is the initiator and annual main organizer of the INTERSPEECH Computational Paralinguistics Challenge science competitions since 2009 and the Audio / Visual Emotion Challenge since 2011 in the field of computer perception and machine learning.
Selected prices
- 2015 and 2016: One of 40 extraordinary Scientists under the age of 40 (“Young Scientist”) of the World Economic Forum (WEF) as well as speaker at the “WEF Summer Davos” and speaker in the BetaZone
- In 2013, Schuller received a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros from the ERC, the most valuable EU funding award for young researchers.
- 2018: IEEE Fellow
Fonts
Schuller is the author and co-author of over 800 specialist articles in peer-reviewed books, journals and conference proceedings. Google Scholar cites more than 20,000 citations for these.
Dissertation / Habilitation:
- Human, machine, emotion - recognition from verbal and manual interaction. VDM Verlag Dr Müller, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-1522-4 .
- Intelligent audio analysis. Signals and Communication Technology, Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-36805-9 .
Monographs / compilations:
- with Anton Batliner: Computational Paralinguistics: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech and Language Processing. Wiley, Chichester 2013, ISBN 978-1-119-97136-8 .
- with Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu and Maite Taboada: Computational Methods for Affect Detection from Natural Language. Computational Social Sciences, Springer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-00601-7 .
- with Kristian Kroschel and Gerhard Rigoll: Statistical Information Technology. 5th edition. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-15953-4 .
Web links
- Björn Schuller's private homepage
- Research Gate
- Article on dradiowissen.de
- Article on Imperial College London website
- Article on swr.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage at Imperial College London
- ↑ Homepage at the University of Augsburg
- ↑ Chair at the University of Passau
- ↑ audEERING company
- ↑ Harbin Institute of Technology ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ CISA of the University of Geneva
- ↑ PhD thesis
- ↑ Profile at the Technical University of Munich ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ MISP working group of the Technical University of Munich
- ↑ Profile at the CNRS-LIMSI
- ↑ profile in the IBUg Group at Imperial College
- ↑ Press release on the appointment to the University of Passau
- ↑ Article on campus.pnp.de
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Profile at the AAAC ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing
- ^ IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- ↑ Organizers of the ACM ICMI 2014
- ↑ EU project ASC-Inclusion
- ↑ Article on www.zeit.de
- ↑ EU project ARIA VALUSPA
- ^ EU project De-ENIGMA
- ↑ ERC Starting Grant iHEARu
- ↑ EU project MixedEmotions
- ↑ ERC Advanced Grant PROPEREMO ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ EU project SEMAINE
- ↑ EU project SEWA
- ↑ BMBF project EmotAss
- ↑ Article on www.focus.de
- ↑ Article on campus.pnp.de
- ↑ Special Interest Group Speech of the AAAC ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Young Scientists of the World Economic Forum
- ↑ BetaZone Talk during the WEF Annual Meetings of the New Champions in 2015
- ↑ ERC Starting Grant iHEARu on the ERC website ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 20, 2018
- ^ Google Scholar Page Björn Schuller
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuller, Bjorn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuller, Björn W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scientist in electrical engineering, information technology and computer science and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |