Dr. Barthold Albrecht

Barthold holds a PhD (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Sinn) and a diploma in economics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and a Graduate Certificate "Artificial Intelligence" from Stanford University. He is a winner of the Final Project Prize for Andrew Ng's graduate course "Deep Learning" (together with Yanzhou Wang and Xiaofang Zhu). Furthermore, he serves as teaching assistant for Stanford's Professional Certificate Program "Artificial Intelligence" and as academic mentor for Andrew Ng's "Sequence Models" on Coursera.

For more than 17 years Barthold held various management positions in the telecoms and utility business. As a Senior Vice President of E.ON AG in Düsseldorf and in his role as Head of Central Staff and assistant to the CEO he was responsible for all matters of the Group Executive and Supervisory Board during the merger of VEBA and VIAG and the subsequent 100 + billion M&A program - including divestments of e.g. E-Plus, Aral, Stinnes or Degussa and acquisitions of Powergen and Ruhrgas.

Since his interest in AI came from language and literature in the first place, Barthold has a focus on Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning. In his last project he worked on building algorithms which employ discrete reasoning for question answering.