Jonas Weiss

Jonas Weiss is a senior research scientist and has been with IBM Research - Zurich for close to twenty years. He received his masters and PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. 
Before joining IBM, he has held different positions in the industry, designing medical electronics systems and integrated circuits for mobile devices.

His scientific background includes analog high-speed CMOS chip design, high-speed ESD-protection circuits, electro-optical circuit and module design and characterisation, large (compute) system analysis and specification and chronic disease monitoring using wearable and IoT devices. For many years he was a member of the Neuromorphic Devices and Systems Group and his research focus was on understanding interdependencies between analog computing devices, architectures and respective workloads and algorithms for cognitive computing. 

In the IBM Zurich Science and Technology department he is coordinating the machine-learning and AI effort. More recently, his research focus has shifted towards AI and AI algorithms, specifically for understanding natural hazard risks based on satellite images in the context of global climate change.

Jonas is (co-) author of about 50 peer reviewed scientific publications, has close to 30 patents granted and has held numerous technical and invited presentations at high-level international conferences.