DeepRec.AI - The Leadership Lab Podcast

Patric is the CTO & Co-Founder of Neurolabs, a startup that is building Computer Vision algorithms trained using synthetic data created in Virtual Environments.  The new paradigm of Synthetic Computer Vision is at the forefront of their flagship product, ReShelf, that is able to recognise CPG products in variety of situations.    At Neurolabs, he’s leading the technical teams working on the sy...

Dr. Naja von Schmude is co-founder and CTO of Peregrine Technologies ( peregrine.ai ) where she shapes the development of Peregrine’s computer vision based products to empower commercial fleets and mobility services to operate safely and efficiently. Naja holds a PhD from Heidelberg University in computer science with a focus on computer vision applications in robotics and autonomous driving. She...

Florian is at the helm of the computer vision initiatives at Caresyntax. His educational background is rooted in telecommunication engineering, with a notable emphasis on mathematics, physics, computer science, and AI. His journey took an intriguing turn during his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at TU Berlin, where he discovered a fervor for analyzing biomedical data and delving into ML modelin...

Markus Oberweger received his PhD Degree in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology. During his studies he focused on Machine Learning methods for Computer Vision. Currently, he works as a Senior Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineer on non-rigid 3D reconstruction at Naked Labs. Before, he worked as a Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vis...

Stefan Habenschuss studied and lectured computer science and computational neuroscience at the University of Technology in Graz. He worked on artificial neural networks and their relation to biological neural networks as research scientist, publishing papers in high-ranking journals in computational neuroscience and machine learning. He continued his career as a software engineer at the video game...

Justin Shenk is Co-Founder and CTO of VisioLab, AI software company providing a computer vision platform for automated checkouts in cafeterias. His background in neuroscience research.  VisioLab combine human-centered artificial intelligence with the responsibility of making data-driven decisions for a more sustainable food economy around the world. Discover more insights: https://www.deeprec.ai/b...

Julian leads the team for Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Nect. During his study of Physics, he discovered his passion for building mathematical models for the world. After obtaining his PhD and realizing that academia is not for him, a switch to the industry lead him to Data Science as a useful application of his skills. He spent some time working on logistics data, but in 2018 was recrui...

Degree in Geodesy and Geoinformatics, PhD in Photogrammetry from the University of Stuttgart, founded nFrames in 2014 which was acquired by Esri in 2020. Since then Director of the Esri R&D Center in Stuttgart with focus on Photogrammetry and Reality Capture software technology. Esri is driving cutting edge software solutions for Reality Capture. Their passion is the transfer of research from...

In this episode, we will be discussing the challenges with Finding Talent VS Creating Talent. Throughout the course of our discussion, we will delve into various significant dimensions. Initially, our attention will be directed towards the strategies that organizations are currently implementing to cultivate and nurture exceptional talents right from within their own ranks. This involves an explor...

Stefan Vogel received his diploma in computer science 1997 in Kaiserslautern. For 15 years he has been working as an IT-consultant on topics like data warehousing / "Big Data" and software development for CGI and Commerzbank. As a data scientist, he has been providing insights with Business Intelligence, Data Analysis and Process Mining in the following 5 years. Since 2017 he has been wo...

Elias Vansteenkiste is the lead artificial intelligence architect at Segmentive. Segmentive has developed cutting-edge real-time video segmentation technology for retail mobile devices that empowers users to intelligently remove themselves from live backgrounds to be transported into a scene of their choice, enabling a broad range of AR / VR use cases. Segmentive is part of Cinector, which provide...

Kynan is currently co-founder and CEO at iniVation , chairman at QuantActions ; board member at iniLabs . Former founding chairman at SynSense . Degrees in science (comp. sci., applied math.) and mechanical engineering at Monash University (Melbourne), PhD from Institute of Neuroinformatics at ETH Zurich . Former faculty at Uni/ETH Zurich, ran research group investigating neuroscience and medical...

Hasnain is a Machine Learning Engineer at Hasty AI. In pure engineering fashion, he likes tackling engineering and real world issues, trying to bring out the most utility from systems. This led him into Hasty AI, where he and the team deal with implementing the data flywheel - the process of annotating data, training and deploying deep learning models, and then iterating quickly. He hopes this hel...

Dr. Rafael Pagés is Volograms Co-founder and CEO of Volograms. Rafael has been working on the 3D reconstruction field for more than 10 years, both as an entrepreneur and also as a researcher. Before co-founding the company, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin where he conducted his main research in free-viewpoint and volumetric video, and computer vision. He received hi...

Appu has over 18 years experience in Computer Vision and AI. He has started 3 companies, and founded Mobius Labs in 2018, with the goal of taking computer vision to every application. He previously headed AI teams at EyeEm, and has also co-authored highly cited academic publications. Discover more insights: https://www.deeprec.ai/blog

Florian Letsch is excited about the intersection of product development and computer vision. He is currently a senior AI engineer and team lead at Twenty Billion Neurons GmbH. He and his team are working on "Fitness Ally", an AI-powered fitness app that scores your workout performance using the camera in your smartphone. TwentyBN is based in Berlin and Toronto. Aside from their fitness p...

Leif-Nissen Lundbæk (Ph. D.) is Co-Founder and CEO of Xayn . His work focuses mainly on algorithms and applications for privacy-preserving artificial intelligence. In 2017, he founded the privacy tech company together with Professor Michael Huth and Felix Hahmann. Xayn offers a privacy-protecting search engine that enables users to gain back control over the algorithms and provides them with a smo...

Dr. Tillich began his career with a Bachelor of Science in Biosystems Technology and Bioinformatics from the University of Applied Sciences Wildau (Germany) as well as a Master of Science from the same institution.    Dr. Tillich then pursued and completed his PhD in Molecular Biology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a focus on laboratory automation systems and its role in  developing be...

Alexander is a perception lead at Kopernikus Automotive GmbH. He started his career as a software test engineer and worked in a big variety of fields primarily related to Machine Learning topic like OCR, NLP and Big Data processing.    Around 3 years ago he discovered a beautiful world of autonomous vehicles and decided that he wants to be a part of this field that will change our future. After su...

Nicolas founded Visevi Robotics together with Stefan Lochbrunner in 2019. During his PhD research, he investigated visual and haptic perception for smart robots and proposed the patented technology of camera-based sensing. He studied electrical engineering at TU Munich and at Georgia Tech. Smart service robots are about to change our life at home and at work. Contrary to existing industrial robots...

Görkem is a computer vision engineer at Bliq.ai. He studied geoinformatics engineering and worked on map data for two years. Later, he completed his master's education at Geoinformation Science in TU-Berlin, then started working in Bliq.ai. They use computer vision and AI for real-time street knowledge gathering and occupancy predictions of the curbside parking spots. Discover more insights:...

Sebastian studied economics at the University of Leicester, is one of the founders and also an active member of the research team inside Picalike. He has more than 15 years of experience in computer vision and machine learning and started his career at SAP. Picalike uses Computer Vision and AI for competitor analysis and personalized recommendations for fashion e-commerce. Discover more insights:...

Antonio is a computer scientist with a background in industry and academia. He is currently a senior data scientist at Parkling GmbH. He teaches computer vision and deep learning in Berlin's Data Science Retreat and hosts the Berlín Computer Vision Group meet-up. Discover more insights: https://www.deeprec.ai/blog

Alex is CTO and co-founder of MoonVision. He studied electrical engineering and worked on control systems for 7 years. In 2014 he founded the Ethereum meetup in Vienna. During his MBA in California, he developed models for the California Policy Research Center.   His master thesis on machine learning with encrypted data was interrupted by the founding story of MoonVision. In 2016 the to-be founder...

Ruben Cardenes is physicist and PhD in Medical Image Analysis and Artificial Intelligence with over 15 years of academic and professional experience in Computer Vision.    He has a strong academic background in medical imaging with research and teaching experience in three different universities, serving as reviewer in top journals and conferences (MedIA, IEEE T. on Medical Imaging, MICCAI, ISBI)...