Prof. Dr. Siegfried Handschuh is a Full Professor of Data Science and Natural Language Processing at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen. With a background in computer science from the University of Ulm and information science from the University of Konstanz, Prof. Handschuh earned his PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where his thesis was conducted in collaboration with Stanford University as part of the DARPA DAML project. After completing his PhD, Prof. Handschuh spent eight years leading the Knowledge Discovery Unit at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in Galway, Ireland. During this time, he collaborated with several multinational companies and was an active participant in the Digital Aristotle project, which was backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Since 2018, Prof. Handschuh has been based in Switzerland, where his research focuses on generative AI and Large Language Models. With his wealth of experience and expertise, he is well-equipped to guide students in their studies of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI Chatbots in particular.
