Michael Heiss

Principal Consultant Digitalization at Siemens

Austria

About

I like to drive complex new opportunities, where you need unconventional approaches and a fine feeling in your fingertips in order to be step by step more successful. If somebody says "this is impossible", I get interested.

Experience

  • Siemens (30 yrs 6 mos)
    • Principal Consultant Digitalization
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    • Principal Consultant Digital Enterprise
      Sep 2017 - Sep 2025 · 8 yrs 1 mo

    • Head of Research Group Cyber-Physical Systems
      Dec 2014 - Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Siemens Corporate Technology.at Siemens AG Austria. The more networked the individual systems are, the higher is the complexity of the system as a whole. The focus of my work is to develop methods and platform architectures which make this complexity manageable.In addition I am responsible for the Innovation Management of the global Technology Field.

  • Vienna University of Technology (34 yrs 9 mos)
    • Professor
      Jan 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

      Honorary Professor for Innovation and Technology Management

    • Associate Professor
      Sep 1995 - Present · 30 yrs 10 mos

      Lectures according to the Habilitation

    • Assistant Professor
      Oct 1991 - Dec 1995 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Research: Learning Control, Computational Intelligence, self-adapting input-output-map; teaching nonlinear control

  • Visting Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Oct 1990 - Sep 1991 · 1 yr

    Project Leader "Self-Learning Input-Output Maps" at the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems

  • Control Engineer at Voest Alpine Automotive
    Oct 1986 - Sep 1990 · 4 yrs

    R&D: electronic Diesel control