Dipl.-Ing.
Dorothea Heiss
Kalksburger Straße
6
1230 Vienna
Austria
email: dorothea at heisss
dot at
phone: (+43)
660 8897500
Professional Career
Since 2022 Business Consultant
für innovative high-tech companies
Business development, patent strategy, project management, company
organization, …
2019-2022 Wien Energie GmbH
Business Developer
for New Business Fields:
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digital services based
on the analysis of energy usage data
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digital health
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hydrogen for heavy
traffic
2004 - 2019 Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (AIT)
2017 Business Manager for Industrial Vision Automation and Control
2014 Deputy Head High-Performance Image Processing (28 employees)
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substantial
contribution to strategy of business unit
2010 promotion to Senior Research Engineer
2010 development and lead of a new business case
quality inspection for industry
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market analysis and selection
of relevant markets: electronics manufacturing, metal processing, coins, infrastructure
(rail, road)
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identification und customer-oriented
communication of the USPs
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prioritization of research
topics and establishment of road maps
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customer acquisition
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design of solution for
specific customer problem
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negotiation of
contracts (including IPRs) with clients
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development of
license models (depending on provisions of exclusivity)
2005 - 2009 Head of Research of High-Performance Image Processing, responsible
for a budget of 1.850.000 €.
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manager of approx. 30
projects (customer or publicly funded)
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taking charge of a crisis
project (> 1 million €), bringing it back on track and acquiring follow-up
orders
2000 - 2004 Eudaptics GmbH (today:
Viscovery GmbH)
Head of Consultancy
for predictive analytics and
data mining with
self-organizing neural nets
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product owner of the Viscovery Software (agile development)
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contribution to business
plan for investors
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lead of many customer
projects, e.g. for Xella/YTONG, which became one of
the most successful projects in the 25-year history of Eudaptics
(see https://www.viscovery.net/success-stories)
1997 - 1999 EVIS
Technologies GmbH (EVolutionary Intelligent Solutions)
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market study on
Genetic Programming tools
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scientific study (funded
by FFG) on the complexity of evolved programs
1989 - 1997 Alcatel
Austria - ELIN research centre
1991 Head of the Design and Development team (12 employees)
for an object-oriented expert system tool (PAMELA-C++ PAttern
Matching Expert LAnguage)
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jointly responsible for
marketing and sales of the expert system tool
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responsible for national
and international funding of the development
1989/90 Deputy
Head of Department (25 employees)
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manager of EU-funded projects
(ESPRIT and EUREKA)
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project manager for
knowledge engineering and prototyping
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study on the integration
of fuzzy logic in an expert system tool
since
1996 member of program committees of
international conferences:
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European Machine
Vision Forum 2017, Vienna
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International
Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, ICANNGA 1997
(UK)
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Second International
Symposium on Neural Computation, NC 2000;
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International ISCS
Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, EIS in the years 2000, 2002,
2004 (UK, Spain, Portugal)
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International ICSC Symposium on Computational
Intelligence, CI 2000
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First International
ICSC-NAISO Congress on Neuro Fuzzy Technologies NF 2002 (Cuba).
1990/91 Kurt
Gödel-Stipendium (Federal Ministry for Science and Research)
for a 1-year sabbatical as
Guest scientist
at Boston University (Boston, Mass. USA)
topic: re-use of expert knowledge databases
University Education
1993 - 1997 parental leave,
work on PhD thesis on Genetic Programming
1990 - 1991 guest student at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Jan. 1989 Graduation Master Sc. (Computer Science),
Specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Technical University Vienna
Further Education (excerpt)
2013 Verhandeln
nach dem Harvard-Konzept
(Business Circle)
2010 Vertiefendes
Vertrags-Know-How für Nicht-Juristen
(Business Circle)
Publications, Talks, Patents
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(co-)inventor of
22 patents (national and international)
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numerous talks, especially
at industry conferences, 10 invited talks
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1 book chapter:
D. Heiss, B. Kuchinka:
"Self-Organizing Map-basiertes Customer Behavior
Modeling als Schlüssel zur digitalen Kundennähe"; in:
"In: Handbuch Electronic Customer Care. Ed. by: Salmen S.; Gröschel M.;", Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004, ISBN: 3-7908-0243-3, S.
105 - 120.
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23 scientific
publications (excerpt)
1. Heiss-Czedik
D.:
“Is Genetic Programming Dependent on High-level Primitives?”; International
Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA´97),
Norwich, UK, 1997 and in
Artificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms. Springer, Vienna, 1998.
2. D. Heiss-Czedik,
I. Bajla:
"Using Self-Organizing Maps for object
classification in Epo image analysis";
Measurement Science Review, Vol. 5 (2005),
Nr. 2; S. 11 - 16.
3. D.
Heiss-Czedik, R. Huber-Mörk, D. Soukup, H. Penz, B. Lopez Garcia:
"Demosaicing algorithms for area- and
line-scan cameras in print inspection";
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 20 (2009), 6; S. 389 - 398.
Interviews and articles
22.06.2017 Machine
Vision Trends 2017 - 7 experts about the most important developments; World of Industries
https://www.world-of-industries.com/machine-vision-trends-2017/
19.06.2015 Elf Meter pro Sekunde: Banknoten
blitzschnell überprüfen, Die Presse
https://diepresse.com/home/science/4758717/Elf-Meter-pro-Sekunde_Banknoten-blitzschnell-ueberpruefen
24.3.2015 Frauenspuren, TU Wien
https://www.frauenspuren.at/frauenspuren_heute/absolventinnen/dorothea_heiss_czedik_eysenberg/
19.02.2008 Keine zwei Münzen gleichen einander zu 100
Prozent, Die Presse
https://amp.diepresse.com/364117
19.06.2007 Geistesblitz:
Die Bildverarbeiterin, Der Standard
https://derstandard.at/2925972/Geistesblitz-Die-Bildverarbeiterin