Roland Steiner

Roland Steiner has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Roland is currently a Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Woven Planet Holdings, starting in April 2021. Prior to this, they worked as a Software Engineer at Caspar.ai from August 2018 to December 2019. Roland also has experience as a Founder of a startup project from April 2017 to August 2018. Before that, they served as a Principal Architect at Rakuten from February 2015 to January 2016. Roland has also worked at Google as a Software Engineer from February 2009 to January 2015. Earlier in their career, they held the position of Software Group Lead at Altova from April 2003 to January 2009. Lastly, Roland began their professional journey at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer from November 2000 to September 2002.

Roland Steiner has a diverse education history in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. Roland obtained their Bachelor's degree (DI) in AI and CG from Technische Universität Wien, where they attended from 1990 to 1996. Subsequently, they pursued further studies at The University of Tokyo, where they earned their Doctor of Science degree (Dr.Sc.) in Natural Language Processing. This academic journey indicates that Roland has a strong foundation in both AI and CG, with a specific focus on Natural Language Processing during their doctoral studies.