Jörg Wicker
Senior Lecturer at School of Computer Science - University of Auckland
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJörg Wicker is a senior lecturer and machine learning researcher with over a decade of experience applying AI to cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and environmental sustainability. Based in Auckland, he combines an academic track record (PhD from TUM) with entrepreneurial leadership as co-founder and current CEO of enviPath, guiding applied ML from lab to product. His recent work focuses on reliability, adversarial vulnerabilities, and bias in models, with practical impacts in chemistry, epidemiology, and environmental research. Jörg’s background blends long-term research appointments and international visits with hands-on startup CTO experience, giving him a rare mix of theoretical depth and product-minded engineering. An intriguing thread through his career is the steady move from foundational bioinformatics toward trustworthy ML for real-world environmental decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Technical University of MunichDiplom Bioinformatics, Diplom Bioinformatics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
German, English, French, Macedonian
Github Skills (10)
classifiers10
multi-target10
weka10
decomposition9
procedures9
matrix-decomposition9
boolean8
evaluation8
matrix7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
joergwicker/bmad
Mar 2016 - Oct 2020
A Boolean Matrix Decomposition Framework
Contributions:3 releases, 5 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 8 months
decompositionmatrixmatrix-decompositionboolean
joergwicker/autoencoder
Dec 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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