Dr. Claus Horn

Personal profile

Management role

Head, Autonomous Systems and Reinforcement Learning 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

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

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

Professional milestones

Lead Data Scientist, Migros, Zurich
Cognitive Data Scientist, Swiss Re, Zurich
Researcher, CERN, Geneva
Postdoc, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Membership of networks

• Reinforcement Learning Zurich
• LinkedIn
• Google scholar
• Research gate

Projects

• Drohnenalarm / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Reinforcement Learning Analysis Framework / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Optimierung der Pflanzengesundheit im Indoor-Farming mit Hilfe von Verstärkendem Lernen / Project leader / Project completed
• Transformernetze für Drohnensignale / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Optimierung von Online-Bildungssystemen mit Hilfe von Reinforcement Learning / Project leader / Project completed
• Klassifikation von Drohnensignalen / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Detektion von Drohnensignalen / Deputy project leader / Project completed

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

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