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Leadership
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Rasmus Rothe, Ph.D. Founder
Rasmus published 15+ papers on deep learning while attending Oxford, Princeton and ETH Zurich, where he received his Ph.D. in computer vision and deep learning. Before founding Merantix, Rasmus worked for BCG, Google, and built a deep learning service with 150m+ users. He is a founding board member of the German AI Association.
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Adrian Locher Founder
Adrian has been a serial entrepreneur and investor for more than 20 years. He holds a degree in business and economics from the University of St. Gallen. Over the years, he has founded more than 10 companies in various industries and markets. His last exit was at a $100M revenue e-commerce company with a 200 people team.
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Prof. Luc van Gool Founding Advisor
Prof. Luc Van Gool is a computer vision professor at ETH Zurich & KU Leuven. He is a leading researcher in the field of computer vision. Prof. Van Gool is ranked top 10 globally by citations for computer vision and top 20 for machine learning. He is also a board member of top-tier journals and conferences.
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Radu Timofte, Ph.D. Founding Advisor
Radu is group leader and lecturer at ETH Zurich. His research is at the confluence of machine perception and AI. His seminal works have large impact in industries such as mobile, automotive, and media. Radu serves as reviewer and chair for top-tier journals and conferences.
Careers at Merantix
We are looking for machine intelligence engineers, entrepreneurs, business minds, software & data engineers as well as industry experts to join our team.