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Thomas Zaugg is Head of Open Innovation & External Networks at Roche Diagnostics where he is responsible for partnering with Universities & Startups,  upskilling employees with Digital & Data Academy and connecting as Technology Leader (e.g. Robotics) and active Data Scientist (EPFL) in different digital & business collaborations. 
Thomas has a background as Electronic/Informatics Engineer, Chemist/Chemical Engineer, International MBA, PMP, Management Board Education and is a Senior Manager with P&L responsibility and international Business Experience.
Thomas has more than 25 years experience mainly in MedTech / Life Science and combines many business topics & technologies like: e-Business, Robotic, AI/Machine Learning, IT-Security, Software for Medical Devices (IEC 62304), Predictive Processing & Maintenance, Process Mining. Deep & Machine Learning (Tensorflow, SVM, Neuronal Networks/CNN, Time Series/LSTM, Classification/Random Forest/XGBoostClassifier, Text/NLP, Unbalanced Data/Classifier/LSTM in Python). Thomas is very interested in new ML Approaches like:Auto ML or Physics-informed ML.

AMLD EPFL 2022 / Speakers

Michael Bronstein

Oxford / Twitter / IDSIA

Max Welling

Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research

Samy Bengio

Senior Director, AI and Machine Learning Research, Apple

Regina Barzilay

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Melanie Mitchell

Davis Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face

AMLD / Global partners