Dr. Claus Horn

Dr. Claus Horn
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
FS Autonomous Systems and Reinforcement Learning
Schloss 1
8820 Wädenswil
Work at ZHAW
Management role
Head, Autonomous Learning Systems research group
Position at the ZHAW
Lecturer (Institute of Computational Life Sciences)
Head of Continuing Education Program at ICLS
Courses taught:
Machine Learning
Advanced Deep Learning
Professional development teaching
- CAS in Digital Life Sciences
- Data Analysis Fundamentals
- Applied Reinforcement Learning
- CAS Advanced Machine Learning and Machine Learning Operations
Education and Continuing education
Expertise and research interests
Forcast and control models for sequential data using reinforcement learning and deep learning, generative models, graph neural networks, causal inference, artificial intelligence
Professional milestones
Lead Data Scientist, Migros, Zurich
Cognitive Data Scientist, Swiss Re, Zurich
Researcher, CERN, Geneva
Postdoc, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Educational background
2023 - CAS Management and Leadership
2021 - CAS University Didactics
2006 - PhD in Physics
2007 - M.Sc. in Economics
2003 - M.Sc. in Physics
Membership of networks
Projects
- Drone Alarm / Deputy project leader / Project completed
- Reinforcement Learning Analysis Framework / Project leader / Project completed
- Optimizing plant health in indoor farming using reinforcement learning / Project leader / Project completed
- Transformer Networks for Drone Signals / Deputy project leader / Project completed
- Optimization of online education systems with reinforcement learning / Project leader / Project completed
- Classification of drone signals / Deputy project leader / Project completed
- Detection of drone signals / Deputy project leader / Project completed
Publications
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Garcia, Victor; Horn, Claus; Ott, Thomas,
2022.
The sciences of data – moving towards a comprehensive systems perspective.
Archives of Data Science, Series A.
8(2).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000150241
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Glüge, Stefan; Nyfeler, Matthias; Ramagnano, Nicola; Horn, Claus; Schüpbach, Christof,
2023.
In:
van Stein, Niki; Marcelloni, Francesco; Lam, H.K.; Filipe, Joaquim, eds.,
Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - NCTA.
15th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), Rome, Italy, 13-15 November 2023.
Setubal:
SciTePress.
pp. 496-504.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.5220/0012176800003595
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Horn, Claus; Nyfeler, Matthias; Müller, Georg; Schüpbach, Christof,
2022.
Drone radio signal detection with multi-timescale deep neural networks [paper].
In:
Yurish, Sergey Y., ed.,
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence.
4th International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI), Corfu, Greece, 19-21 October 2022.
IFSA Publishing.
pp. 140-143.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27185
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Imstepf, Nicolas; Senn, Saskia; Fortin, Antonio; Russell, Benjamin; Horn, Claus,
2022.
arXiv.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.14693
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Amacker, Julian; Kleiven, Thomas; Grigore, Mihai; Albrecht, Patrick; Horn, Claus,
2022.
A learned simulation environment to model plant growth in indoor farming.
arXiv.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.03155
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
ATLAS Collaboration, „Combined search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector“, Phys.Rev. D86 (2012) 032003.
ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for a light Higgs boson decaying to long-lived weakly-interacting particles in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector“, Phys.Rev.Lett. 108 (2012) 251801
ATLAS Collaboration, „Search for displaced vertices arising from decays of new heavy particles in 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS“, Phys.Lett. B707 (2012) 478-496
ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for supersymmetry using final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in s√=7 TeV pp”, Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 131802
ATLAS Collaboration, “The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure”, Eur.Phys.J. C70 (2010) 823-874
ATLAS Collaboration, “Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010”, Eur.Phys.J. C72 (2012) 1849
C. Horn, „A Bottom-Up Approach to SUSY Analysis“, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 36 (2009) 105005.
ATLAS Collaboration, “Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics”, SLAC-R-980, CERN-OPEN-2008-020.
C. Horn, “Search for gravitinos in R-parity violating supersymmetry at HERA”, Ph.D. Thesis, DESY (2006).
C. Horn, “Crystal Growth of the Organic Semiconductors Tetracene and PTCDA on Self-Assembled Monolayers absorbed on Al2O3 Substrates”, Master Thesis (2003).
For a more complete list see:
scholar.google.com/citations