Prof. Dr. Helmut Grabner

Prof. Helmut Grabner is a computer vision scientist and professor of machine learning and visual computing at ZHAW, Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He is Head of the Visual Intelligence and Applications Group and also serves as Head of Entrepreneurship at the ZHAW School of Engineering. He holds a master’s degree and a PhD in computer science from Graz University of Technology, Austria. After completing his doctoral work, he was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, where he co-founded the ETH spin-off upicto, which was later acquired by Logitech. Before joining ZHAW, he led the Computer Vision and Machine Learning division at Logitech’s CTO Office, where he helped translate research into globally deployed consumer products. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and holds numerous patents. Among other honors, he received the prestigious Koenderink Prize in 2018, awarded for “fundamental contributions in computer vision that stood the test of time."