Bernhard Haslhofer

Bernhard Haslhofer is a Senior Scientist at the AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, where he acts as Thematic Coordinator in the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence research group. He also leads the CryptoFinance research group at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) and teaches as an external lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna.

Bernhard obtained his doctorate from the University of Vienna in Computer Science and has a master’s degree in Economics and Computer Science. Before joining AIT, he worked as an EU Marie Curie fellow at Cornell Information Science and as an assistant professor at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on finding and applying quantitative data science methods for gaining new insights from large-scale, connected datasets. He usually works in multidisciplinary settings, has published more than 60 scientific articles in journals and conferences, and co-organized several workshops, symposia, and conferences. Moreover, he actively contributed to international standardization efforts with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the W3C World Wide Web Consortium. He coordinated several basic and applied research projects on the national and international levels.