Sebastian Furth
Director R&D Artificial Intelligence - Digital Factory at Schneider Electric
Greater Wurzburg Area Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Furth is an industrial AI and platform leader with 16 years of experience, currently directing R&D for Artificial Intelligence within Schneider Electric’s Digital Factory. He specializes in taking ambiguous industrial needs and turning them into production-grade AI features—from embedded microcontroller inference to cloud-native Copilot services and AI-optimized control systems. His work blends deep technical expertise (ONNX Runtime, edge accelerators, RTOS, Azure IoT/Digital Twins) with strategic productization, having launched vision-based quality control and ultra-constrained embedded anomaly detection. Sebastian holds a PhD in Computer Science from Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and is known for bridging research, prototyping, and large-scale deployment while nudging generative and agentic AI into engineering workflows. Notably, he pursues practical hardware abstraction across diverse platforms, enabling consistent AI delivery from microcontrollers to industrial automation suites.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level, A-Level at Fachoberschule Kitzingene-Juniors.netEnglish, German, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, History, Geographie, Physical Education..., English, German, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, History, Geographie, Physical Education... at Secondary School MarktheidenfeldSecondary school level I certificate (O-Level), English, German, Mathematics, Economics, Accounting, History, Geography, Chemistry, Physics..., Secondary school level I certificate (O-Level), English, German, Mathematics, Economics, Accounting, History, Geography, Chemistry, Physics... at Secondary Modern School MarktheidenfeldFachoberschule MarktheidenfeldMaster of Science, Informatics, Master of Science, Informatics at Julius-Maximilians-Universität WürzburgGerman, Mathematics..., German, Mathematics... at Elementery School ErlenbachDoktor (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doktor (Ph.D.), Computer Science at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
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Github contributions (5)
semtechdoc/semtechdoc
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 issue in 7 days
denkbares/lapdftext
May 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 43 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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