Dr. Rasmus Rothe

Rasmus Rothe is a co-founder and CTO at Merantix, a Berlin-based venture studio building transformative AI companies in industries such as healthcare and automotive. As a co-founder and board member of the German association of AI companies (KI Bundesverband), he works closely with the German government on their AI strategy and implementation. He obtained a PhD in Deep Learning from ETH Zurich after studying at Oxford and Princeton. Previously he co-founded HackZurich, which became the biggest hackathon in Europe, scaled a deep learning powered service to 150 million users, and became world champion in Robocup Junior.