Damian Borth

Biography

Damian Borth, PhD, is a member of the ICSI Board of Trustees and Director of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of  St. Gallen, where he also holds a full professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 

Dr. Borth’s research focuses on the emerging field of weight space learning, remote sensing, and earth observation. His work has been awarded with the ACM SIGMM Test of Time Award 2023, Google Research Scholar Award 2022 the NVIDIA AI Lab at GTC 2016, the Best Paper Award at ACM ICMR 2012, and the McKinsey Business Technology Award in 2011 He conducted his postdoctoral research at ICSI, where he was involved in big data projects at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 

Previously, Dr. Borth was the founding director of the Deep Learning Competence Center at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, where he was also PI of the NVIDIA AI Lab and was a visiting researcher at the Digital Video and Multimedia Lab at Columbia University, New York City, USA. Dr. Borth received his PhD from the University of Kaiserslautern and DFKI.

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