Patrick van der Smagt - Director A.I Research at Volkswagen Group

After obtaining his phd in Computer Science back in the 90s, Patrick van der Smagt showcases an interesting journey that includes the German Aerospace Center and a professorship at the Technical University of Munich he now is heading the fundamental research lab of the Volkswagen Group for machine Learning, deep learning, quantum machine learning and robotics.  We met up with Patrick in Munich at the lab and talked about his professional life and his views on the space of machine learning and A.I both from a research and application perspective.