Ulrich Bodenhofer is a professor for artificial intelligence at the School of Informatics, Communications and Media of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Hagenberg, Austria. Prior to that, Dr. Bodenhofer held several positions all related to research, teaching, and applications of machine learning. Most notably, he worked as Associate Professor for Bioinformatics and Machine Learning in Sepp Hochreiter's lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz, for 12 years, but he has also been engaged in building up an AI startup company, QUOMATIC.AI. Dr. Bodenhofer's research interests are concentrated on applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to fields ranging from sales analytics and industry to healthcare and bioinformatics.