Georg Dorffner   [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 at the Section for Artifical Intelligence of the Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Managing Director of 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 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-present: Head of the Neural Computation and Robotics Group, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence 1995-present: Associate Professor at the Section for Artificial Intelligence, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna 1996: Visiting Scholar at Boston University, Psychology Dept. (Jan-Feb) Current research interests Advanced pattern recognition (e.g. neural networs, Bayesian inference) Medical signal analysis and time series processing Connectionist models of conceptual development and language Neuroinformatics Major projects Current Multi-sensor sleep modeling based on contextual data fusion (FWF) Past SENSATION: Advanced sensor development for attention, stress, vigilance and sleep/wakefulness monitoring MACS: Multi-sensory Autonomous Cognitive Systems Interacting with Dynamic Environments for Perceiving and Using Affordances MindRaces: From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems MONOTONE - processing modelling in the printing industry (EU-GROWTH) SIGNAL - Systemic architectures for growing neural artefacts that live (EU-IST-FET) Adaptive Models in Economics and Management Science: Computational Intelligence SIESTA: development of a new standard for polysomnographic sleep analysis (Biomed-2) NEUFODI (Neural Networks for Forecasting and Diagnosis Applications) (Esprit-II) Enhancement of EEG-Based Diagnosis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders by Artificial Neural Networks (Biomed 1) Statistical tools and knowledge transfer for ECANSE Publications Recent publications: 1.    Anderer P., Gruber G., Parapatics S., Dorffner G.: Automatic sleep classification according to Rechtschaffen and Kales. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007;2007:3994-7. 2.         Anderer P., Gruber G., Parapatics S., Woertz M., Miazhynskaia T., Kloesch G., Saletu B., Zeitlhofer J., Barbanoj M., Danker-Hopfe H., Himanen S., Kemp B., Penzel T., Groezinger M., Kunz D., Rappelsberger P., Schloegl A., Dorffner G.: An E-Health Solution for Automatic Sleep Classification according to Rechtschaffen and Kales: Validation Study of the Somnolyzer 24 x 7 Utilizing the Siesta Database., Neuropsychobiology, 51(3)115-133, 2005. 3.         Danker-Hopfe H, Anderer P, Zeitlhofer J, Boeck M, Dorn H, Gruber G, Heller E, Loretz E, Moser D, Parapatics S, Saletu B, Schmidt A, Dorffner G.: Interrater reliability for sleep scoring according to the Rechtschaffen & Kales and the new AASM standard. J Sleep Res. 2009 Mar;18(1):74-84. 4.         Danker-Hopfe H., Kunz D., Gruber G., Kloesch G., Lorenzo J.L., Himanen S.L., Kemp B., Penzel T., Roeschke J., Dorn H., Schloegl A., Trenker E., Dorffner G.: Interrater reliability between scorers from eight European sleep laboratories in subjects with different sleep disorders, Journal of Sleep Research, 13(1)63-69, 2004. 5.         Dingemanse J, Dorffner G, Hajak G, Benes H, Danker-Hopfe H, Polo O, Saletu B, Barbanoj MJ, Pillar G, Penzel T, Chiossi E, Hoever P: Proof-of-concept study in primary insomnia patients with almorexant (ACT-078573), a dual orexin receptor antagonist, Sleep and Biological Rhythms, Worldsleep07 supplement, 2007. 6.         Findl O., Struhal W., Dorffner G., Drexler W.: Analysis of non-linear systems to estimate the intraocular lens position after cataract surgery, Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 30(4)863-866, 2004. 7.         Flexer A., Bauer H., Pfripfl J., Dorffner G.: Using ICA for removal of ocular artifacts in EEG recorded from blind subjects, Neural Networks, Volume 18, Issue 7, pp. 998-1005, 2005. 8.         Flexer A., Gruber G., Dorffner G.: A reliable probabilistic sleep stager based on a single EEG signal., Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 33(3)199-207, 2005. 9.         Ludl M.C., Lewandowski A., Dorffner G. (2008) Adaptive Machine Learning in Delayed Feedback Domains by Selective Relearning, Appl.Artif.Intell., 22(6): 543-557 10.      Miazhynskaia T., Frühwirth-Schnatter S., Dorffner G. (2008) Neural network models for conditional distribution under bayesian analysis, Neural Computation, 20(2): 504-22 11.      Miazhynskaia T., Dorffner G. (2006) A Comparison of Bayesian Model Selection Based on MCMC with an Application to GARCH-type Models, Statistical Papers, 47: 525-549 12.      Miazhynskaia T., Fruehwirth-Schnatter S., Dorffner G. (2006) Bayesian testing for non-linearity in volatility modelling, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 51(3): 2029-2042 13.      Moser D, Anderer P, Gruber G, Parapatics S, Loretz E, Boeck M, Kloesch G, Heller E, Schmidt A, Danker-Hopfe H, Saletu B, Zeitlhofer J, Dorffner G.: Sleep classification according to AASM and Rechtschaffen & Kales: effects on sleep scoring parameters. Sleep. 2009 Feb 1;32(2):139-49. 14.  Neumann C., Gschwendtner M., Karnel F., Mair J., Dorffner G., Dorffner R.: Technical feasibility of the implantation of a monorail stent system into the renal arteries without pre-dilatation, Fortschr Roentgenstr (RoFo), 177:84-88, 2005. To obtain a dynamically generated list of publications, click on one of the following: all (until 2008) Theory and Algorithms  Medical Applications Other Cognitive Science  Abstracts and online versions of many older published papers are available via the ÖFAI Technical Reports Online service. 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, Project Studies for students of Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, as part of their curriculum for Human Medicine. Currently offered courses (descriptions in German) Machine Learning and Neural Computation Clinical Signal Analysis and Pattern Recognition Introduction to Neuroinformatics Old course descriptions: Neural Computation 1 Neural Computation 2 Cognitive Neuroinformatics 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 Board Member of the Austrian Society for Cognitive Science   Founder of the Austrian baseball club Vienna Homerunners Contact address   Georg Dorffner, PhD, MS Section for Artificial Intelligence Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems Medical University of Vienna Freyung 6/2, A-1010 Vienna, Austria Email: Georg <dot> Dorffner <at> Meduniwien <dot> ac <dot> at Tel: +43-1-4277-63116 Mobile: +43-664-4223987 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 Last update: Feb 19, 2010