David Suendermann-Oeft - Curriculum Vitae

David Suendermann-Oeft - Curriculum Vitae

I am founder and CEO of Modality.AI, Inc., a digital health startup in San Francisco, delivering self-driven neurological assessments. Throughout my career, I have been working in the field of spoken language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence at multiple industrial and academic institutions including Siemens (Munich and Mexico City), RWTH (Aachen), UPC (Barcelona), USC (Los Angeles), Columbia University (New York), SpeechCycle (New York), Synchronoss (New York), ICSI (Berkeley), EMR.AI (San Francisco), and Kasisto (New York) and have held appointments as tenured professor of computer science and department head at DHBW Stuttgart. I was also the director of the Dialog, Multimodal, and Speech (DIAMONDS) research center and manager of the San Francisco Office at Educational Testing Service (ETS). I have authored over 180 publications and patents including two books and eleven book chapters and serve as evaluator, rapporteur, and innovation expert for the European Commission and expert for the National Science Foundation.



date and place of birth	August 8, 1977	Magdeburg, Germany
nationality	USA; Germany
family status	married; four children
studies electrical engineering specialization information technology; telecommunications	October 1997 to April 2002	Dresden University of Technology Dresden, Germany
internship	March 2001 to August 2001	Siemens SA de CV Mexico City, Mexico
M.Sc. (E.E.) (with Distinction)	October 2001 to April 2002	Siemens Corporate Technology Munich, Germany
research staff member	October 2002 to December 2003	RWTH Aachen - University of Technology Aachen, Germany
Ph.D. fellowship	April 2003 to March 2007	Siemens Corporate Technology Munich, Germany
research staff member	January 2004 to February 2007	Technical University of Catalonia Barcelona, Spain
visiting scientist	August 2005 to October 2005	University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA
visiting scientist	October 2005 to December 2005	Columbia University New York, USA
speech science engineer; principal speech scientist	March 2007 to September 2013	SpeechCycle, Inc.; Synchronoss, Inc. New York, USA

Ph.D. (E.E.) (Magna Cum Laude)	July 2008	Bundeswehr University Munich Munich, Germany
professor of computer science; department head	July 2011 to August 2017	Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Germany
visiting professor	July 2012 to September 2012	University of California, Berkeley International Computer Science Institute Berkeley, USA
visiting professor	February 2013	Columbia University New York, USA
director of research	August 2014 to May 2018	Educational Testing Service San Francisco, USA
founder; chief science officer	March 2016 to January 2019	EMR.AI, Inc. San Francisco, USA
senior director of data science	March 2019 to July 2021	Kasisto, Inc. New York, USA
founder; chief executive officer	since May 2018	Modality.AI, Inc. San Francisco, USA