Ross King heads the Competence Unit Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in the Center of Digital Safety & Security at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. He completed his PhD in Physics at Stanford University. He has worked at AIT for more than 20 years and has coordinated numerous national and international research projects in programs such as KIRAS, H2020 and ISFP. The research focus of his group is the application of quantitative methods and techniques, such as machine learning, for scalable multimodal data processing.