Christoph Lampert received the PhD degree in mathematics from the University
of Bonn in 2003. Afterwards, he held postdoctoral positions at the German
Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Kaiserslautern and the Max Planck
Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. Since 2010 he is an assistant
professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), where
he heads a research group for computer vision and machine learning. Dr Lampert
received several international and national awards for his research, including the
best paper prize of CVPR 2008 and best student paper award of ECCV 2008.
In 2012 he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council.
He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence (TPAMI) and Action Editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research
(JMLR).