ao.Univ.Prof. Dr. Georg Dorffner Medical University of Vienna    [Personal] [Positions] [Education] [Career] [Research] [Projects] [Publications] [Teaching] [Activities] [Miscellaneous] [Address] Personal born and resident in Vienna, married to Gabriele Dorffner, PhD, three children . Positions Associate Professor, Institute of Artifical Intelligence of the Center for Medical Data Science, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Curriculum Director for the Master Program Medical Informatics at the Medical University of Vienna Business Developer and Head of Clinical Trials at The Siesta Group Schlafanalyse GmbH Education 1985: M.S. in electrical engineering/communication engineering, Vienna University of Technology 1985: M.S. in computer science, Vienna University of Technology 1987: M.S. in computer science, Indiana University 1989: Ph.D. in computer science (minor: linguistics), Indiana University 1994: "Habilitation" in the field of Artificial Intelligence with a thesis on"Artficial Neural Networks: Theory and Application in Medicine" and subsequent tenure, University of Vienna. Professional Career, Past Positions 1985: Research assistant at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence 1985-1986: Research assistant at the Phonetics Lab, Indiana University 1987-1995: Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna 1987-2007: Head of the Neural Computation and Robotics Group, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence 1996: Visiting Scholar at Boston University, Psychology Dept. (Jan-Feb) 2002-2014: Founder and Managing Director of The Siesta Group GmbH 2010-2013: Senior Manager at Philips Respironics 2018-2020: Interim head of the Section for Artifical Intelligence and Decision Support of the Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Current research interests Machine learning  (e.g. neural networks, Bayesian inference) Medical signal and image analysis, time series processing Neuroinformatics Major projects Current DS4Health - International Master's Program Empowering Healthcare through Digital Technology (EU, Digital Eurupe, Co-PI together with Oliver Kimberger) Digital Skills, Knowledge and Communication für Studierende der Humanmedizin (BMBWF) Past Data Science for Personalized Medicine (coordinator) Deep learning for improved nuclei segmentation and knowledge transfer methods in microscopic images; (FFG Bridge, co-PI, partners: Prof. Isabella Ellinger, MedUni Wien, Dr. Rupert Ecker, TissueGnostics GmbH) Imaging neuronal circuits of the preforntal cortex during a gambling task (WWTF, co-PI, main PI: Thomas Klausberger) Multi-sensor sleep modeling based on contextual data fusion (FWF) SENSATION: Advanced sensor development for attention, stress, vigilance and sleep/wakefulness monitoring (EU FP6 IST) MACS: Multi-sensory Autonomous Cognitive Systems Interacting with Dynamic Environments for Perceiving and Using Affordances (EU FP6 Cognitive Systems) MindRaces: From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems (EU FP6 Cognitive Systems) MONOTONE - processing modelling in the printing industry (EU FP5 GROWTH) SIGNAL - Systemic architectures for growing neural artefacts that live (EU FP5 IST-FET) Adaptive Models in Economics and Management Science: Computational Intelligence (FWF SFB) SIESTA: development of a new standard for polysomnographic sleep analysis (EU Biomed-2) NEUFODI (Neural Networks for Forecasting and Diagnosis Applications) (EU Esprit-II) Enhancement of EEG-Based Diagnosis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders by Artificial Neural Networks (EU Biomed 1) Statistical tools and knowledge transfer for ECANSE Publications Recent publications: Medical at Pubmed Technical at dblp Most cited at Google Scholar Orcid researcher identification at ResearchGate Teaching   Courses in Machine Learning, Neural Computation, Neuroinformatics, Connectionism and related fields at the Medical University of Vienna, and, formerly, at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, and the Vienna University of Technology. Courses in Science in Medicine, Statistics, Clinical Research, and Project Studies for students of Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, as part of their curriculum for Human Medicine. Currently offered courses (old descriptions in German) Machine Learning in Medicine Neuroinformatics Guidelines and Requirements for Medical Software Biosignal Analysis Old course descriptions: Machine Learning in Medicine Neuroinformatics EEG Signal Analysis Machine Learning and Neural Computation Clinical Signal Analysis and Pattern Recognition In addition, supervision of masters' and PhD theses for students of Medicine or Medical Informatics Past activities Workshops and symposia 2001: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2001) 1988-2008: Symposium "Neural Networks and Adaptive System" at the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) 1997: post-NIPS workshop on Neural Models of Conceptual Learning 1997: First Austrian Workshop on Neural Networks Miscellaneous Board Member of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence   Founder of the Austrian baseball club Vienna Metrostars (formerly Homerunners) Contact address   Georg Dorffner, PhD, MS Institute of Artificial Intelligence Center for Medical Data Science Medical University of Vienna Währinger Str. 25a, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Email: Georg <dot> Dorffner <at> Meduniwien <dot> ac <dot> at Tel: +43-1-40160-36316 Mobile: +43-664-4223987 Last update: Jun 24, 2024