Elgar Fleisch (born January 22, 1968 in

Bregenz Bregenz (; gsw, label= Vorarlbergian, Breagaz ) is the capital of Vorarlberg, the westernmost state of Austria. The city lies on the east and southeast shores of Lake Constance, the third-largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, between Switze ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

) is an Austrian/Swiss Professor of

Information Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random ...

and

Technology Management Technology management is a set of management disciplines that allows organizations to manage their technological fundamentals to create customer advantage. Typical concepts used in technology management are: * Technology strategy (a logic or rol ...

at ETH Zurich and the

University of St. Gallen A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

. Besides his academic career, Elgar Fleisch is also locally known as a singer, songwriter and musician. He is part of the duo Fleisch & Fleisch and has recorded nine albums together with his brother Gerald.

Biography

Elgar Fleisch graduated 1987 in mechanical engineering at th
HTL Bregenz
studied information systems at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich hist ...

, and received his PhD in 1993 in

Machine Learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

. In 1994 he completed his postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Information Management at the

(HSG) on enterprise networks. In 1996 Elgar Fleisch interrupted his postdoctoral research for one year and founded IMG Americas. In 2000, he became assistant professor at the

. Since 2002 Elgar has been full professor at the Institute of

at the

(ITEM-HSG). In 2004 he was also appointed to ETH Zurich, where he holds the Chair of Information Management at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics. Elgar Fleisch spent his sabbaticals at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

and at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

. He is a co-founder of several spin-off and start-up companies as well as a member of the supervisory boards of Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, German

Mobiliar Versicherungsgesellschaft AG, Bern, Switzerland and Uniqa Insurance Group, UNIQA Insurance Group AG, Vienna, Austria. Prof. Fleisch is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Gebert Rüf Foundation, Basel.

Research

Since 1999, Prof. Fleisch's research interest focused on the merger of the physical and digital worlds to an Internet of Things. Together with his team, he pursues the goal of understanding this fusion with a specific focus on technology, applications and implications. In addition, he aims to develop new Internet of Things technologies and applications for the benefit of the economy and society. Prof. Fleisch has organized his research into several research laboratories, each spanning both universities and combining technology and social sciences. Most projects take place in close cooperation with industry. Elgar Fleisch and his team have published their results in over 500 scientific papers.

Publications

* ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elgar_Fleisch * Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=9CEJKM4AAAAJ

References

External links

Elgar Fleisch at ETH Zürich

Elgar Fleisch at University of St. Gallen
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fleisch, Elgar 1968 births Academic staff of ETH Zurich Living people Austrian business theorists Swiss business theorists Information systems researchers