EMOTION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Scientific Officer
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Management Team
- Photographer
- Research / Research
audEERING was founded in 2012. It emerged from Prof. Björn Schuller's AI research group at TUM. Today the company is led by CEO Dagmar Schuller, CTO Dr. Florian Eyben and CSO Prof. Dr. Björn Schuller. We believe in flat hierarchies, personal responsibility and agile adaptation to markets, customers and projects.
Björn Schuller, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and co-founder of audEERING, describes himself as an audiophile and belongs to those who perceive the world via their ears. With his work he is aiming at teaching machines to listen. The focus of his research is on machine learning, automatic speech recognition and affective computing. Björn Schuller teaches at Imperial College London and at the University of Augsburg, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Healthcare and Wellbeing.
Björn W. Schuller received his diploma, doctoral degree, habilitation, and Adjunct Teaching Professor in Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing all in EE/IT from TUM in Munich. He is Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Head of GLAM at Imperial College London, Full Professor and Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing at the University of Augsburg, Guest Professor at Southeast University in Nanjingand permanent Visiting Professor at HIT (China) amongst other Professorships and Affiliations. Previous stays include Full Professor at the University of Passau, Key Researcher at Joanneum Research in Graz, and the CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Golden Core Awardee of the IEEE Computer Society, Fellow of the BCS, Fellow of the ISCA, President-Emeritus of the AAAC, and Senior Member of the ACM. He (co-)authored over 1,000 publications , is Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Digital Health and was Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing amongst manifold further commitments and service to the community. His 30+ awards include having been honoured as one of 40 extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 by the WEF in 2015. He served as Coordinator/PI in 15+ European Projects, is an ERC Starting and DFG Reinhart-Koselleck Grantee, and consultant of companies such as Barclays, GN, Huawei, Informetis, or Samsung.
Today, audEERING® is led by CEO Dagmar Schuller, CTO Dr. Florian Eyben and CSO Prof. Dr. Björn Schuller. The Governance Board, including internationally renowned experts, advices on the management level.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Management Team
- Member of the Plenum of the Chamber of Industry
- Photographer
Dagmar M. Schuller is CEO and Co-Founder of audEERING, the innovation leader in AI-based audio analysis. Among others, audEERING was awarded 2018 with the innovation price Bavaria, was named European Top 5 Deep Tech company for Digital Wellbeing by EIT Digital, and won the VDE Bayern Award as well as the Vision Award in 2019.
Since May 2021 Dagmar Schuller is member of the plenum of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria (IHK), Germany's largest Chamber of Industry and Commerce. In June 2021 she was elected vice president of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria (IHK). Her focus poionts are innovation, new technologies, technology transfer and data economics. Further, Dagmar Schuller is Deputy Head (Politics) of the Bavaria Chapter of KI Bundesverband e.V. and supports public institutions and different companies with her expertise as an advisor.
After completing an qualification for information technology (engineer's degree), Schuller studied economic sciences at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration as well as New York University, L. Stern School of Business with focus on business informatics and international Management (Master) as well as law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich with focus on IT-law. Schuller has more than 20 years of work experience in the area of digitalisation and disruptive technology innovation. Prior to co-founding and heading audEERING as CEO, she was Senior Vice President, Operations Europe for an international inverstment of Hubert Burda Media. Before she was management consultant at Ernst & Young in Vienna, Austria and in New York, USA, advising international clients for IT risks and consulting for digitalisation strategies. She also was part of the global strategy team of Ernst & Young LLP for the implementation of the company's eBusiness process- and product strategies. Further, Dagmar Schuller had a lectureship at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich at the institute for business informatics and new media. As Keynote Speaker, Invited Speaker and Panelist at national and international conferences she provides insight at applied AI. Schuller has (co-)authored more than 20 scientific publications (h-index 9) at the topic of applied AI and digitalisation.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- CTO
- Member of the Management Team
- CTO and Co - Founder of AudEERING
- Photographer
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer
Martin Wöllmer, Chief Information Officer at audEERING, is a real expert in the field of automatic speech recognition. After obtaining his PhD from Technical University Munich (TUM), he started working for the speech group at BMW with the goal of making vehicles better conversation partners. Martin can look back at more than ten years of experience in the field of automatic speech and emotion analysis.