Michael Schuhmacher
Head Of Artificial Intelligence at Südzucker Group
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Schuhmacher is a Head of Artificial Intelligence with 11 years of experience building and scaling AI products and teams across industry leaders including BASF and now Südzucker Group. He combines deep technical roots in knowledge graphs, semantic search, and cloud ML engineering with hands-on product leadership—hiring and growing cross-functional teams, defining corporate AI strategy, and running GenAI implementation factories. His background spans research intern roles at Yahoo to PhD-level computer science training, giving him a rare mix of research rigor and pragmatic delivery in enterprise contexts. Based in Mannheim, he’s known for turning complex R&D digitalization challenges into production-ready AI systems and for embedding innovation processes alongside program-level governance. An oft-overlooked strength is his track record in aligning budget, stakeholder and technical roadmaps simultaneously, enabling measurable business impact from AI initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Lecturer Data Science, Lecturer Data Science at Albstadt-Sigmaringen UniversityMaster's Degree Business Engineering, Master's Degree Business Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of MannheimComputer Science, Computer Science at RMIT University
Github Skills (9)
relation5
java-bytecode4
knowledge-base-population4
extraction3
rundeck3
pipeline3
java3
extractor3
relation-extraction2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mschuhma/relationfactory
Mar 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
extractionend-to-endpipelineknowledgeknowledge-base
mschuhma/dbpediaweights
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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