Professor

Professor for Data Engineering

Department of Software Engineering
School of Informatics, Communications and Media
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Softwarepark 11, A-4232 Hagenberg AUSTRIA

Phone: +43 50804 22035
E-Mail: erik.pitzer@fh-hagenberg.at

Short Biography

2000 - 2004:		Studies in Software Engineering at the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria
2003 - 2004:		Internship and diploma about parallel sequence alignment at the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg
07/2004:		Dipl.-Ing. (FH) in Software Engineering (with distinction)
02/2013:		Doctor techn. at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (with distinction)
2004 - 2007:		Research associate at the UAS Research Center Hagenberg
2007 - 2009:		research associate at the Decision Systems Group of Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
2009 - 2013:		Research associate at the UAS Research Center Hagenberg
2013 - 2016		Assistant Professor for Software Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg
since 2016		Professor for Data Engineering at the  University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg

Research Interests

• Fitness Landscape Analysis
• Persistent Data Structures
• Simulation-based Optimization
• Evolutionary Computation
• Metaheuristics
• Bioinformatics
• Programming Languages

Publications

Erik Pitzer's publications can be found on his Research Documentation page (external link).