SHORT BIO
Simon Walk currently works as Senior Product Owner and Senior Data Scientist at Avery Dennison - atma.io. From 2012 to 2013, he was working as a scientific developer at the Know-Center GmbH and as a project assistant at the Knowledge Management Institute at Graz University of Technology. From 2013 to 2014, Simon Walk worked as a scientific developer at Virtual World Services GmbH. Additionally, he has been a visiting researcher at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research from November 2011 to February 2012 and September 2013 to December 2013. In 2014, he started to work as University Assistant at the Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media at Graz University of Technology where he received his PhD in 2016. From 2016 to 2017, he worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University. In 2017, he returned to Austria and started to work as Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science at Graz University of Technology from June 2017 to January 2018. Before joining atma.io, Simon worked as Senior Data Scientist and Team Lead at Detego GmbH from February 2018 to May 2021.
The main research interests of Simon Walk include Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning & Neural Networks, Recommender Systems, Network Science, Knowledge & Data Mining and Semantic Web & Ontologies.