Ralf Herbrich
Professor at Hasso Plattner Institute
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
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Top SchoolRalf Herbrich is a professor and AI leader with deep expertise in Bayesian inference, game theory, NLP, computer vision and energy-aware AI, combining over two decades of research and industry impact. He chairs the Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability group at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut, where he pursues both energy-efficient AI methods and AI-driven solutions for renewable energy and battery lifetime optimization. Ralf helped invent widely used systems such as TrueSkill and adPredictor and led applied ML teams at Microsoft, Amazon and Zalando, translating principled research into large-scale production systems. He balances a people-first leadership style with a conviction that breakthroughs occur at disciplinary intersections, preferring dialog-driven scientific exchange. As a member of SAP’s supervisory board and advisor to circular-economy battery startups, he blends academic rigor with strategic industry influence focused on sustainable impact.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
College, Abitur, College, Abitur at High School Einstein Gymnasium, AngermündePhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Research Fellow at Darwin College CambridgePhD, Theoretical Statistics, PhD, Theoretical Statistics at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German, Russian
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Github Skills (36)
encoder-decoder10
attention-model9
attention-mechanism9
time-series-forecasting9
sequence-to-sequence8
sequence8
probabilistic8
infection8
translation8
neural-machine-translation8
pytorch7
machine-learning7
aws7
forecasting7
transformer-architecture7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rherbrich74/FirstPythonSteps
Feb 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 4 months
first-stepspythonpython3steps
rherbrich74/lkc-book
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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