
I received a Diploma degree in physics from the University of
Göttingen, Germany, in 1984 and M.Sc., M.Phil.
and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 1986 and
1989, respectively. Since 1989 I am the head of a research
team in machine learning at Siemens Corporate Research &
Technologies. In 1994 I was a visiting scientist at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Biological and
Computational Learning. Each summer I give a lecture
on machine
learning and data mining (since 2003). In my projects I
collaborate with both the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU) and the
Technical University Munich (Technische Universität
München, TUM). Since 2011 I am a Professor at the
LMU. I am the first honorary professor in the Department for
Informatics at the LMU.