Berlin Metropolitan Area
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Actyx. We make factory software simple, allowing the world to become more productive and more resilient.
We have built a factory automation platform that changes the game for factories and developers automating them.
Working in the cognitive automation group: - developed a decentralized control system for industrial transportation systems (leveraging modern M2M communications and adaptive user-interfaces, the configuration time for industrial transportation systems was reduced by 1-2 orders of magnitude), - organized the planning, writing and submission of an EU grant proposal (4 countries, 11 members), - interfaced with industry partners to understand and contribute to the digital industry vision.
• Developed a resource-contention-aware integrated manufacturing planner/scheduler as part of a DARPA project. • Applied heuristic search methods to solve a real-world job-shop problem.
• Contributed to a research project evaluating the tractability of using Partially Observable Markov Decision Process for the optimization of Waste-to-Energy plants in the face of uncertain market demand. • Developed a hardware-in-the-loop controller evaluation framework. (part-time: 24%, 10 hrs/week)