Claim to fame: sold text-input technology to Nokia (72 languages, Symbian OS & s40) in an asset deal.
Best investment: linguistic AI platform Cognitive Workbench: modular, trainable by non-AI-experts, on-premises. Current focus: InsurTec, shipping with ready-to-use applications.
Wrote my first chatbot at age 12.
Studied Natural Language Processing / computational linguistics as one of the first in Germany, introduced statistics for the curriculum.
PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, 8 years of research on how the human brain processes language
Founded ExB to turn these learnings into a different form of software: elegant, not bruteforce.
20+ international patents pending or granted.