Georg Dorffner   [Personal] [Positions] [Education] [Career] [Research] [Projects] [Publications] [Teaching] [Activities] [Miscellaneous] [Address] Personal born and resident in Vienna, married to Gabriele Dorffner, MA, three children . Positions Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artifical Intelligence of the Center for Brain Research, 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 Dept. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Medical University of Vienna 1996: Visiting Scholar at Boston University, Psychology Dept. (Jan-Feb) Research interests Neural Networks - theory and applications in industry and medicine Time series analysis and economic modeling Signal processing Connectionist models of conceptual development and language Major projects Current 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 Past 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   To obtain a dynamically generated list of publications, click on one of the following: all Theory and Algorithms  Medical Applications Other Cognitive Science  Abstracts and online versions of many published papers are available via the ÖFAI Technical Reports Online service. Teaching   Courses in 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. Recently offered courses (descriptions in German): Neural Computation 1 Neural Computation 2 Cognitive Neuroinformatics In addition, supervision of student projects and masters' and PhD theses in neural networks and connectionism (for students of Medical Informatics), as well as studies and applications in automatic analysis of biosignal data in sleep medicine (for students of Medicine). Activities Workshops and symposia 2001: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2001) since 1988: 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 Inst. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence Center for Brain Research Medical University of Vienna Freyung 6/2, A-1010 Vienna, Austria Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Freyung 6/6, 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, Aug 31, 2006