Björn Wolfgang Schuller (born April 18, 1975) is a scientist of electrical engineering, information technology and computer science as well as entrepreneur. He is professor of artificial intelligence at Imperial College London.,Homepage at Imperial College London UK, and holds the chair of embedded intelligence for healthcare and wellbeing at the University of Augsburg in Germany.Homepage at University of Augsburg He was a university professor and holder of the chair of complex and intelligent systems at the University of Passau in Germany. He is also co-founder and managing director as well as the current chief scientific officer (CSO) of audEERING GmbH,Company audEERING Germany, as well as permanent visiting professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in the People's Republic of China and associate of CISA at the University of GenevaCISA at University of Geneva in French-speaking Switzerland.

Career

Schuller was born in 1975 in Munich, Germany. After graduation in 1994, he received his diploma in 1999, a doctorate in 2006, and the state doctorate (habilitation) in the field of signal processing and machine intelligence as well as adjunct teaching professor in 2012—each in electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. There, he headed as scientific assistant, academic council, and junior fellow the Machine Intelligence & Signal Processing Group at the chair of human–machine communication. From 2009 to 2010, he worked as a computer scientist at the French CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay near Paris, as well as visiting scientist in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, UK.Profile at the iBUG group at Imperial College London In 2011, he was an ERASMUS lecturer at the University of Ancona, Italy, and a guest at NICTA in Sydney, Australia. In 2012, he was Visiting Key Researcher at the Institute for Information Technology and Communication Technology at Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH in Graz, Austria, for which he remained a consultant until 2017. At the end of 2012, he co-founded audEERING GmbH, based in Gilching near Munich and Berlin, Germany, where he has been managing director ever since and is the current chief scientific officer (CSO). The startup of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, deals with solutions for intelligent audio analysis and counts major global enterprises 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 appointed associate. He also represented the new chair of computer science with a focus on sensor technology at the University of Passau. He received calls to Great Britain in Edinburgh and London – and accepted a position as senior lecturer at Imperial College London, which promoted him in 2015 to reader in machine learning, and in 2018 to professor of artificial intelligence. He further accepted a call to the University of Passau as full professor of the newly established chair of complex and intelligent systems (initially chair of computer science with a focus on complex systems engineering) in 2014. In 2017, he accepted a professorship for embedded intelligence for healthcare and wellbeing both in the Faculty of Applied Computer Science and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Augsburg.Article on the University of Passau webpage

Schuller was elected president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC)Profile at AAAC – the International Association for Affective Computing registered as a charity in the UK. He is the co-founder and was editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing,IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and General Chair of IEEE ACII 2019 and ACM ICMI 2014.Organizers of the ACM ICMI 2014 Schuller co-ordinated the European ASC Inclusion ProjectArticle on www.zeit.de and was principal investigator in a variety of European (including ARIA-VALUSPA,EC project ARIA VALUSPA De-ENIGMA,EC project De-ENIGMA iHEARu,ERC Starting Grant iHEARu MixedEmotions,EC Project MixedEmotions PROPEREMO,ERC Advanced Grant PROPEREMO SEMAINE,EC project SEMAINE SEWAEC project SEWA) and national collaborative projects (including EmotAssBMBF project EmotAss).

Work His research interests include machine intelligence, signal processing with a focus on audio, affective computingArticle on www.focus.de and health informatics. Schuller is the initiator and annual main organizer of the science competitions INTERSPEECH Computational Paralinguistics Challenge since 2009Special Interest Group Speech of the AAAC and Audio / Visual Emotion Challenge since 2011 in the field of computer perception and machine learning.

Selected prizes 2015 and 2016: One of 40 extraordinary scientists of the World Economic Forum (WEF) under 40 years ("Young Scientist") as well as speaker at the "WEF Summer Davos"Young Scientists of the World Economic Forums and speaker in the BetaZoneBetaZone talk during the annual meetings of the new champions of the WEF in 2015 In 2013, Schuller received a Starting Grant from the ERC amounting to 1.5 million euros, the highest endowed EU grant for young researchers.ERC Starting Grant iHEARu on the ERC webpage 2018: Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to computer auditionElevated IEEE Fellows 2018

Publications Schuller is author and co-author of more than 800 papers in peer-reviewed books, journals, and conference proceedings. He has more than 20,000 citations.Google Scholar page of Björn Schuller

Theses:

Man, machine, emotion – recognition from linguistic and manual interaction. VDM publishing house Dr Mueller, Saarbruecken 2007, . Intelligent Audio Analysis. Signals and Communication Technology, Springer, 2013, .

Monographs / compilations:

with Anton Batliner: Computational Paralinguistics: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech and Language Processing. Wiley, Chichester 2013, . with Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu and Maite Taboada: Computational Methods for Affect Detection from Natural Language. Computational Social Sciences, Springer, Heidelberg 2014, . with Kristian Kroschel and Gerhard Rigoll: Statistical Information Technology. 5th edition. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2011, .

Links Personal homepage of Björn Schuller

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