Elgar Fleisch
Elgar Fleisch, born January 22, 1968 in Bregenz, Austria, is a professor of Information and Technology Management at ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen. He is also a musician, part of the duo Fleisch & Fleisch, with his brother Gerald, and they have recorded nine albums.
He trained as a mechanical engineer in Bregenz, studied information systems at the University of Vienna, and earned a PhD in Machine Learning in 1993. He did a postdoctoral research stint at the University of St. Gallen on enterprise networks. In 1996 he started IMG Americas. He became an assistant professor at the University of St. Gallen in 2000 and a full professor of Technology Management there in 2002. In 2004 he joined ETH Zurich as the Chair of Information Management.
Fleisch has taken sabbaticals at MIT and Dartmouth College. He has helped start several companies and serves on the boards of Robert Bosch GmbH, Mobiliar Versicherungsgesellschaft AG, and UNIQA Insurance Group AG. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Gebert Rüf Foundation.
Since 1999, his research has focused on the Internet of Things—the connection of the physical world to digital networks. He aims to develop IoT technologies that benefit business and society. His research teams work across both universities and with industry, and he has published more than 500 papers.
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