Founder of Accipio Consulting and Accipio Projects GmbH
Born 1957 in Rheydt, Germany
Professional Experience
2012 Administrative coordinator of FP7 integrated project EU-BRIDGE
2011 Formation of Accipio Projects
2004 Formation of Accipio Consulting
2002 Technical manager of plettac electronics GmbH, Fuerth
1999 CTO of Philips Speech Processing, Vienna – Aachen – Dallas
1994 Manager of the Man-Machine Interfaces research group, Philips Research Labs, Germany
1986 Researcher and project manager, automatic speech recognition for large vocabulary, Philips Research Labs Hamburg and Aachen, Germany
Bodies
Board Member and Vice President ELRA (European Language Resources Association) 1998-2004
Vice Chairman of the Germany section of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 1999-2001
Education
1985 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Göttingen, with a thesis in complex analysis
1984 Academic year at the Université de Nice (France)
Boursier du Gouvernement Français (scholarship of the French government)
1977 Study of mathematics at the University of Göttingen, Dipl.-Math.
Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
Publicly funded projects
Dr. Steinbiss is the administrative coordinator of the currently largest FP7 ICT project in human language technologies, EU-BRIDGE (budget €10.5m), and has been managing large and complex international projects in both science and industry. He has ample experience in publicly funded RTD projects, both at RWTH Aachen University (EU projects PF-STAR, TC-STAR, JUMAS, LUNA, and French Quaero program) and in previous functions at Philips Research (SPICOS, Verbundprojekt Sprachverstehende Systeme, ASL Architektur von Speech-Language-Systemen, SmartKom, and EU projects POLYGLOT and ARISE).
Further information: Patents, publications.
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