Dr. Ralf Otte is an engineer and professor of industrial automation and artificial intelligence at Ulm University of Applied Sciences. He has been working on AI projects in industry and society for 30 years. His current work focuses on researching consciousness, in particular artificial consciousness on neuromorphic machines. Technical applications for such “machine consciousness” can be found in the field of Small Data and Computer Vision.

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1987–1992:
MA Information technology

1998:
PhD in neural networks

1992–2004:
Head of Data Mining Center and Business Intelligence in an international corporation
Implementation and responsibility for approx. 100 AI projects worldwide

2004–2015: 
CEO of a Swiss company in the field of data mining

Since 2015: 
Professor of Automation Technology and Artificial Intelligence

Main areas of research: 
Hypercomplex wave functions; development of a theory of imaginary states to describe the mind and consciousness at various levels of complexity; artificial consciousness in machines, neural networks on quantum computers

Editorial board member of the American Journal of Artificial Intelligence