Florian Wolf received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he mostly worked on topics related to language, speech, and information processing (book). Some of this research was sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (U.S. Department of Defense). After MIT, Dr. Wolf was a postdoc in a bioinformatics project at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge (UK). Dr. Wolf currently works on technologies for MergeFlow, and on software to support operational risk management.
Werner Posch received his doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Munich. In 1996, Dr. Posch co-founded a software company for eCommerce solutions, which was sold to a Fortune 500 company in 2002. Dr. Posch also developed software for product lifecycle management and diagnostic tools for the automotive sector. He furthermore has several years of experience as consultant to venture capitalists. Dr. Posch currently works on the MergeFlow Engine, and is a consultant in Financial Engineering.
Jürgen Schulze received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Hannover, Dr. Schulze joined Perceptronics Inc. and worked on distributed simulations, based on CORBA, COM, and EJB. Dr. Schulze also worked for cleverLearn.com, combining electronic dictionaries and eLearning technologies. After that, Dr. Schulze consulted at Credit Suisse Financial Planning Solutions, and at the Credit Research group at HypoVereinsbank. Currently Dr. Schulze is a consultant at the Research Operations team at UniCredit Markets and Investment Banking.
After receiving his Diploma in Economics, Karl Milojkovic started his career at Compaq Computer. Following different positions in Sales and Marketing, Mr. Milojkovic joined the Compaq Management as Head of the Channel Tele-Consulting Team in 1996. After receiving an MBA from the St. Gallen Management Institute, he was Director of the medium-sized businesses division at Compaq. Then Mr. Milojkovic worked for Hewlett Packard as Sales Director of the Customer Solution Group. In 2006, he joined Fujitsu Siemens Computers, where he was Director of Commercial & Channel Business. Since 2009, Mr. Milojkovic is responsible for sales and partnership management at the German branch of the Swiss ABACUS Research AG.
Edward Gibson is Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. The focus of Prof. Gibson’s research is on how computational complexity affects human language processing. His laboratory uses a variety of techniques, including reaction time studies, computational models, neuroimaging, and trips to the Amazon (cf. here). Prof. Gibson is a rower; he was on the Canadian Olympic team, and he won the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race while he was at the University of Cambridge.