Summary
Tore Risch is a veteran technology leader and founder-CTO specializing in AI-powered stream analytics, deploying real-time analytics from edge devices to cloud platforms. As Professor Emeritus of Database Technology at Uppsala University with prior faculty and industrial research roles at Linköping University, HP Labs, Stanford, IBM Almaden and SRI, he blends deep academic research with hands-on product development. He has over 100 technical publications and five US patents, and has chaired and served on program committees for many international conferences, underscoring his influence in the data and AI research communities. Since 2015 he has led Stream Analyze to commercialize ad hoc edge stream analytics, translating decades of query optimization and knowledge-representation work into practical systems. Notably, his career traces early integrations of AI and databases—from Prolog-relational work to large-scale knowledge-base products—illustrating a long-standing focus on combining symbolic and data-driven approaches. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, he continues to bridge research, entrepreneurship, and production-grade analytics.
10 years of coding experience
Uppsala University