Christian Hotz-behofsits
Assistant Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolChristian Hotz-behofsits is an assistant professor (tenure-track) at WU Vienna who blends a software and information engineering foundation with 13 years of applied research and industry experience in quantitative marketing, digital marketing, and machine learning. He is fluent in Python, R, and SQL and specializes in large-scale data engineering and analysis, having bridged academia and industry through roles at Universal Music Group and multiple lecturing positions. His work sits at the intersection of emerging technologies and retail analytics, translating complex data systems into actionable marketing insights. Trained as a Diplomingenieur and PhD candidate at WU, he pairs rigorous technical depth with practical teaching and consulting experience. Notably, he has maintained a sustained academic–industry pulse by overlapping research roles with product-focused data science work, enabling rapid transfer of methods from lab to real-world campaigns.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyRealgymnasium OberpullendorfDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
German, English, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
lda10
http-client10
cpp10
client-library10
big-data10
topic-modeling10
gensim10
bigquery10
jupyterhub10
matrix-factorization10
php10
sentence-similarity10
dbi10
ipython10
fasttext10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
IMSMWU/RClickhouse
Mar 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 182 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years 11 months
clickhouse-databaseclickhouseyandexdatabasedbi
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