Marcel Gygli
Professor For AI In The Public Sector at Institut Public Sector Transformation (IPST)
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMarcel Gygli is a Professor for AI in the Public Sector with 11 years of experience translating AI research into practical government applications from his base in Bern, Switzerland. He combines a PhD in Computer Science focused on document image and video analysis with hands-on experience building a RESTful web service framework to expose research algorithms as production services. Marcel has moved between academia, national cultural institutions and applied research roles—most recently driving public-sector innovation at the Institut Public Sector Transformation after an Innovation Fellowship at the Swiss National Library. He specializes in operationalizing AI for public good, bridging technical implementation, digital humanities use cases and policy-aware deployment. A pragmatic engineer at heart, he began his career as an application developer apprentice and retains a developer’s focus on usable, integrable systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at FHNWDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université de Fribourg - Universität FreiburgMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Universität Bern
English, German
Github Skills (74)
viewer10
rotate9
webservice9
pan9
openseadragon9
kinect8
iiif8
annotations8
mirador8
remote-api8
image-processing7
tuple7
evaluator7
image-analysis7
azure-kinect7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lunactic/DIVAServices
Jun 2015 - May 2019
Repository of the back end implementation of DivaServices
Contributions:8 PRs, 517 pushes, 42 branches in 3 years 10 months
back-end
lunactic/DMTools
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes in 4 days
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