Damian Borth

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Prof. Dr. Damian Borth is director of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen, where he holds a full professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML). Previously, Damian 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 at the DFKI.

His research focuses on representation learning of neural network’s weight spaces and deep learning in domains such as computer vision or remote sensing. His work has been awarded with the ACM SIGMM Test of Time Award 2023, the HSG Impact Award 2022, the Google Research Scholar Award 2022, the Best Student Paper Award 2022 at CVPR Earth Vision Workshop, the NVIDIA AI Lab at GTC 2016, the Best Paper Award at ACM ICMR 2012, and the McKinsey Business Technology Award in 2011. Currently Damian serves as the member of the board of trustee at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California, the AI Advisory Board of Ringier Media Group, Zurich, the scientific advisory board of the Roman Herzog Institute, Munich. Previously, he was member of the board of the German Data Science Society (GDS), member of the review group at the AI program of the VolkswagenStiftung, and member of review committees at the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, reviewer of the Helmholtz Association Data Science Schools, European Union ERC, DFG, US-DOE, and several other program committees of international conferences and workshops such as Nature, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, KDD, WACV, and ACM ICAIF.

Damian did his postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, where he was involved in big data projects at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He received his PhD from the University of Kaiserslautern and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). During that time, Damian stayed as a visiting researcher at the Digital Video and Multimedia Lab at Columbia University, New York City, USA.