Prof. Dr. YULIA SANDAMIRSKAYA

Professor @ Zürich University of Applied Sciences

Yulia Sandamirskaya is the Head of a Research Center “Cognitive Computing in Life Sciences” at ICLS/ZHAW. She leads the Neuromorphic Computing Group that develops brain-inspired sensing and processes technologies to enable assistive robots with applications in health- and elderly care. She has a degree in Physics from the Belarussian State University  and Dr.rer.nat. in Neural Computation from the Ruhr-University Bochum. Before joining ZHAW she led the Applications Research team of the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel and the Neuromorphic Cognitive Robots group at Institute of Neuroinformatics at UZH/ETH Zurich. She got a Business Insider Future Maker award and was listed under 30 women in robotics you need to know about by Robohub.