Invited Talk: Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann (ZHAW School of Engineering): Real life machine learning – How research, inspired by use cases, helps me getting along with AI, Wed, Feb 26th, 2025, 13:00 CET

It’s a great pleasure to welcome Prof. Dr. TThilo Stadelmann, professor of AI/ML at the ZHAW School of Engineering in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Title “Real life machine learning – How research, inspired by use cases, helps me getting along with AIs”.

The talk will be on Thursday, Feb 26, 2025, at 13:00 in room 02.134-113 in Martensstraße 3 (2nd floor of the blue CS tower).

Abstract:

After a brief introduction to the environment at the ZHAW, I will delve into 2  very recent results of our work in computer vision (tackling in-plane rotation with mental rotation) and process control (how joint embeddings lead to root cause analysis in industrial production and, eventually, world models). I than venture an outlook on AI and the human: How can we conceive positive visions of our future societies?

Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann:

Thilo Stadelmann is professor of AI/ML at the ZHAW School of Engineering in Winterthur, Switzerland, director of the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence and head of its Machine Perception and Cognition Group. Thilo studied computer science in Giessen and Marburg and received his Doctor of Science degree from Marburg University, Germany, in 2010, where he worked on multimedia analysis and voice recognition. He held engineering and leadership roles in the automotive industry for several years prior to his appointment at the ZHAW. Thilo’s group focuses on robust deep learning to solve diverse pattern recognition tasks such as document analysis or computer vision for industrial and medical applications. His current research interests include learning actionable representations to build common-sense world models as a next-level paradigm for AI.