David Suendermann-Oeft - Curriculum Vitae |
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I am founder and CEO of Modality.AI, Inc., a digital health startup in San Francisco, delivering self-driven neurological assessments. Throughout my career, I have been working in the field of spoken language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence at multiple industrial and academic institutions including Siemens (Munich and Mexico City), RWTH (Aachen), UPC (Barcelona), USC (Los Angeles), Columbia University (New York), SpeechCycle (New York), Synchronoss (New York), ICSI (Berkeley), EMR.AI (San Francisco), and Kasisto (New York) and have held appointments as tenured professor of computer science and department head at DHBW Stuttgart. I was also the director of the Dialog, Multimodal, and Speech (DIAMONDS) research center and manager of the San Francisco Office at Educational Testing Service (ETS). I have authored over 180 publications and patents including two books and eleven book chapters and serve as evaluator, rapporteur, and innovation expert for the European Commission and expert for the National Science Foundation. | |||||||
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date and place of birth |
August 8, 1977 |
Magdeburg, Germany
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nationality |
USA; Germany |
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family status |
married; four children |
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studies
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October 1997 to April 2002 |
Dresden
University of Technology |
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internship |
March 2001 to August 2001
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Siemens
SA de CV |
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M.Sc. (E.E.)
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October 2001 to April 2002
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Siemens
Corporate Technology |
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research staff member |
October 2002 to December 2003 |
RWTH
Aachen - University of Technology
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Ph.D.
fellowship |
April 2003 to March 2007 |
Siemens
Corporate Technology |
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research staff member |
January 2004 to February 2007 |
Technical University of Catalonia
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visiting scientist |
August 2005 to October 2005 |
University
of Southern California
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visiting scientist |
October 2005 to December 2005 |
Columbia
University
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speech science engineer; principal speech scientist
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March 2007 to September 2013 |
SpeechCycle, Inc.; Synchronoss, Inc.
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Ph.D. (E.E.)
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July 2008 |
Bundeswehr University Munich
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professor of computer science; department head
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July 2011 to August 2017 |
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University
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visiting professor |
July 2012 to September 2012 |
University of California, Berkeley
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visiting professor |
February 2013 |
Columbia University
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director of research |
August 2014 to May 2018 |
Educational Testing Service
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founder; chief science officer |
March 2016 to January 2019 |
EMR.AI, Inc.
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senior director of data science |
March 2019 to July 2021 |
Kasisto, Inc.
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founder; chief executive officer |
since May 2018 |
Modality.AI, Inc.
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