Kurt Stockinger

Prof. Dr. Kurt Stockinger is a Professor of Computer Science at ZHAW School of Engineering and holds a doctorate at the University of Zurich. He serves as Head of the MAS Data Science program and co-leads the ZHAW Datalab. His research focuses on Intelligent Information Systems, bridging information systems, natural language processing, and machine learning. Affiliated with the University of Zurich, he contributes to Quantum Machine Learning and Open Data Exploration initiatives.

Stockinger's educational background includes a PhD in Computer Science (University of Vienna & CERN), a Master in Business Informatics (University of Vienna), and a CAS in Didactics & Methodology (ZHAW). He has taught courses in Quantum Computing, Big Data for Natural Sciences, and Data Science programs at ZHAW and University of Zurich.

His research spans Data Science, Big Data, Natural Language Query Processing, Knowledge Graphs, and Quantum Machine Learning. Recent publications focus on quantum autoencoders, hybrid quantum neural networks, and prompt engineering for knowledge graph question answering. He has developed frameworks like ScienceBenchmark for real-world NL-to-SQL evaluation and NQuest for natural language query exploration.

Scientific awards include the

• Best Paper Award at 7th Swiss Conference on Data Science (2020)

He leads major projects such as

• DataGEMS (Data Discovery Platform, Horizon Europe)
• Digital Health Zurich (Clinical Innovation Lab)
• INODE4StatBot.swiss (NL-to-SQL Translation)
• GraphQueryML (Graph Database Optimization)
• ScienceBenchmark (NL-to-SQL Evaluation)

Stockinger's work intersects with computer vision, biomedical data, and industrial applications, demonstrated through collaborations with institutions like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CERN, and University of Washington. He has contributed to establishing QuantumBasel and ZHAW Datalab as research hubs.