Bernhard Knapp

Bernhard Knapp is a Professor and Program Director of the Master in AI Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. He has held academic positions at the Medical University of Vienna (PhD and Habilitation), University of Oxford (Research Fellowship and Associate Director of a Doctoral Training Centre), and UIC Barcelona (Associate Professor leading a research group). His industry experience includes serving as Chief Data Scientist at Symptoma.com in Vienna, managing a team focused on symptom-to-disease prediction systems.

• Education: Bioinformatics studies in Hagenberg and Heidelberg, PhD/Habilitation in biomedical computer simulations (Medical University of Vienna).

Research Focus: Knapp specializes in machine learning algorithms, AI applications, bioinformatics, and molecular simulations, with a publication record spanning 49 peer-reviewed journal papers (H-index: 26). His work bridges computational methods and biomedical problems, including immunoinformatics and data-driven disease modeling.

Labs & Teams: He has led research groups at UIC Barcelona and managed data science teams in industry at Symptoma.com, focusing on scalable AI solutions for healthcare diagnostics.