Summary
Alexander Schindler is a senior AI and data science leader based in Vienna with 11+ years of experience driving research-to-practice impact in multi-modal AI, audio analysis, and NLP. As Deputy Head of Data Science & AI at AIT and team lead for audio and NLP groups, he designs large-scale indexing and retrieval systems for heterogeneous, unstructured media with applications in security, media forensics and disinformation detection. He balances institutional strategy and ML-Ops for research organizations with hands-on project leadership and software engineering experience from industry and academic collaborations. An active educator and community builder, he teaches at TU Wien, supervises students in music information retrieval, and co-organizes Vienna’s largest monthly deep learning meetup. He also contributes to standards and ethics discussions through Austrian Standards and frequent reviewing and event hosting, bringing an uncommon mix of operational program management, applied research, and public engagement to trustworthy AI.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
German, English, French, Italian