Where I have lived (and what I did there)

• Current work:
  • Since 2021: Canada CIFAR AI Chair with Amii
  • Since 2019: Amii Fellow
  • Since 2009: Professor
  • Since September 2000: Faculty member in Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
• 2025, Jan - Jun: Sabbatical
• 2019-2024: DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence
• 2020-21: Sabbatical, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• 2014-17: Associate Chair (Research) for our Department
• 2006-07: Sabbatical, Department of Computer Sciences, Universität Salzburg, Austria
• December 2004: awarded tenure
• September 2000 - 2009: Associate Professor (tenure track), University of Alberta
• April -August 2000: Postdoc, NTT Communication Science Labs, Media Information Lab, Dialog Understanding Research Group, Cognitive Science Group, Atsugi, Japan
• October 1997 - March 2000: STA fellow and researcher, Complex Games Lab, ElectroTechnical Laboratory (ETL), Tsukuba, Japan
• 1997: Back at ETH
• 1996: Postdoc at the Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics Dept., UC Berkeley, California, with Elwyn Berlekamp
• 1995-96: Postdoc at ICSI, the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California
• 1989-95: University assistant and Ph.D. student in Prof. Jürg Nievergelt's group at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Department of Computer Science of ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 1983-89: Dipl.Ing. in "Technische Mathematik" at IICM, Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria, supervised by Peter Lipp, then in the group of Prof. Hermann Maurer.
• 1965-83: growing up in Salzburg, Austria.

Created: Apr 2000, last modified: Jan 2025