Marcel Salathé

Co-Founder

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland21 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded AIcrowd for collaborative data science solutions.
Established Digital Epidemiology as a research area.
Led the EPFL Extension School for online education.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and digital health education.

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About

I'm a scientist, an author, an educator and an entrepreneur. My main interests are in AI / machine learning, nutritional and digital epidemiology. For more about me, see my CV at https://www.digitalepidemiologylab.org/team/marcel-salathe

Experience

21 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

École polytechnique fédérale de lausanne

3 roles

Co Director EPFL AI Center

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Academic Director Extension School

Mar 2016 – Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo

I was the founder an initial academic director of the EPFL Extension School. Its goal was to bring high tech digital skills to the world with online education, but the brand is now used today for the entirety of the EPFL continued education offering.

Associate Professor

Aug 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 8 mos

Aicrowd

Co-Founder

Nov 2018 – Nov 2023 · 5 yrs · Vaud

AIcrowd enables data science experts and enthusiasts to collaboratively solve real-world problems, through challenges.

Itu focus group ai for health

Vice Chairman

Jul 2018 – Apr 2019 · 9 mos

ITU & WHO have started a joint effort “AI for Health” to develop a benchmarking process of AI algorithms used in health. Goal: to create a standardized assessment framework with open benchmarks for the evaluation of AI-based methods for health. The benchmarks are aimed to become international standards and serve as guidance for the assessment of AI4H algorithms. Details: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ai4h/Pages/default.aspx.

Stanford university

Visiting Assistant Professor

Jul 2014 – Dec 2014 · 5 mos · Stanford, CA

Penn state university

Assistant Professor of Biology

Jul 2010 – Jul 2015 · 5 yrs · State College, Pennsylvania Area

I was the head of a research group at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, where I helped establish the new research area of Digital Epidemiology.

Society in science

Fellow

Oct 2008 – Oct 2013 · 5 yrs

I was a Society in Science Branco Weiss fellow from 2008 to 2013. The Branco Weiss Fellowship is unique. It provides young researchers around the world with a generous personal grant, giving them the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose anywhere in the world, for a maximum duration of five years.
This research funding is designed to support postdoctoral researchers after their PhD and before their first faculty appointment.