Wolfgang Maass#
| Membership Number: | 3564 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.igi.tugraz.at/maass/Welcome.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Winter semester 2002/2003 and summer semester 2012 Visiting Professor at the Brain-Mind Institute, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2005 - present Adjunct Fellow of the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS)
- Winter semester 1997/1998: Sloan Fellow at the Computational Neurobiology Lab of the Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA
- 1991-present Professor of Computer Science , and Head of the Institut fuer Grundlagen der Informationsverarbeitung (Institute for Theoretical Computer Science), at the Graz University of Technology in Austria
- 1982 - 1986 Associate Professor and 1986 - 1993 Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Chicago
- 1979 to 1984: Research Fellow at MIT, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley as Heisenberg-Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational neuroscience
- Theory of computation
- Computational complexity theory
- Learning theory
- Machine learning
Honours and Awards
- 1979 Appointment as Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 2005 Appointment as Adjunct Fellow of the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies (FIAS)
- 2008 Appointment as member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society
