David Sattlegger, Dr. MVTec Software GmbH

David Sattlegger studied physics and mathematics at the Technical University of Munich. He obtained his doctorate in mathematics in 2015 for his work on numerical quantum dynamics. Since then, he has been working as research engineer at MVTec Software GmbH where his primary field of research is deep learning and artificial intelligence. His current focus lies on the development of unsupervised anomaly detection and segmentation methods for natural images and their application to industrial manufacturing processes. His research is published in computer vision conference proceedings and journals, and several of the resulting algorithms are already in use in industrial applications.