Ronald Hochreiter

Vienna, Austria // ron@hochreiter.net

Optimization under Uncertainty and Decision Science. Data Science and Machine Intelligence (Machine Learning and Deep Learning). AI.

Activities

Docent and Lecturer

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Habilitation in Business Administration (2013). Project leader of the FFG ASAP (Austrian Space Application Program) project ReKlaSat 3D - Deep Learning on Satellite Images and Satellite Image Point Cloud Reconstructions (2017-2019). Teaching Data Science and Quantitative Finance to students of Business, Management, Marketing and Finance. Furthermore Faculty Member of the WU Executive Academy teaching MBA courses and designing company-specific lecture series.

since October 2009

Managing Director

Hochreiter Consulting

Consulting Decision and Data Science Projects. Teaching Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Focus on reducing the amount of percived required Data Scientists within companies as well as on how to integrate contemporary Data Science technologies into business processes.

since May 2000

Founder

algorithmic.finance & smartbeta.academy

Creating Quantitative, Algorithmic and Computational Finance Tools and Applications as well as providing consulting to Banks, Pension Funds and Investment Managers.

since 2006

President and CEO

Academy of Data Science in Finance

Non-profit organization to build a platform for everyone interested in Data Science and Finance in Austria. Furthermore organizing a yearly International Conference on Data Science in Finance with R. Click here to find out more online.

since November 2017

Husband and Father

to utmost lovely Katharina and Ferdinand

Research

Research Grants

  • Principal Investigator - FFG ASAP - 2017-2019 - ReKlaSat 3D - Deep Learning from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery - 721k.
  • Principal Investigator - FFG Bridge - 2012-2014 - ALSOpt - Data Mining Analysis of Geo-Laserscan-Data - 317k.
  • Principal Investigator - Austrian National Bank Jubiläumsfonds - 2007-2009 - Models for the valuation of complex credit portfolios using Coupled Markov Chains - 56k.
  • Country Coordinator - EU TEMPUS - 2010-2013 - Curriculum Development - Master Studies in Applied Statistics in Serbia - 29k.

Editorial Boards

  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (AI in Finance) - Associate Editor

Publications

See also Google Scholar or Orcid.

Editorial

Teaching