Activities at FHNW
- Head of FHNW Institute for Data Science
- Lecturer in Computer Science
Research
- Data Science
- Data Mining
- Information Retrieval
- Machine Learning
- Data Pipelines
- Astroinformatics
Profile
Biography
- Grew up in Carouge, near Geneva, Switzerland
- Diploma in Computer Science at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, 1991
- PhD in technical sciences from the Department of Computer Science also at ETH, 1997
- Computer Scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory in UC Berkeley, 1998-2001
- Faculty member at FHNW since 2001
- Involved in several data science projects, including for the EU: EGSO, HELIO, HESPE, FLARECAST
- Involved also in space projects, including RHESSI, Herschel, Euclid, Swisscube
- Involved in the management of STIX, the Swiss X-ray telescope on Solar Orbiter
- Head of the Institute of 4D Technologies 2008-2017
- Head of the Institute for Data Science FHNW since 2018