Christian Bergler

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Bergler is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Media and Computer Science at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden. His academic focus lies in Deep Learning, with applications spanning domains like Computer Vision, Acoustic Analysis, and Natural Language Processing. He holds a summa cum laude doctoral degree from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), specializing in Deep Learning Applied to Animal Linguistics.

Research & Teaching

• Leading research on Deep Learning paradigms including Transfer Learning, Federated Learning, and Representation Learning.
• Develops tools for animal communication analysis (e.g., ORCA-SPOT, ANIMAL-CLEAN) and medical signal processing.
• Teaches advanced modules in Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering, and Natural Language Processing.

Awards & Contributions

• Recipient of highest academic honor: summa cum laude doctoral thesis on Animal Linguistics.
• Co-founded OrasTEC GmbH, a startup applying AI to industrial and service sectors.
• Member of the University Council and Senate at OTH Amberg-Weiden.

Key Projects

Pioneered frameworks for automated killer whale sound detection/classification (ORCA-SPOT/ORCA-SLANG) and contributed to open-source tools like ANIMAL-CLEAN for signal enhancement. His work has been featured on German television (3Sat/TerraX) and published in journals like Scientific Reports and Ecological Informatics.