PTNX is the German data science and business analytics company located in Bonn. Our core competencies lie in the areas of research and development within smart solutions and software systems, project management and solutions for data science and business analytics areas. Human resources at Petanux have extensive experience in setting up research projects, developing innovative ideas, running successful project management and exploiting research results into the market. One of the big highlights of the Petanux is that all staff members have worked in/collaborated with different reputable and well-known research groups and companies in the frame of funded (European and German)…

Mahdi Bohlouli, Petanux

Mahdi Bohlouli is currently Assistant Professor for data science and machine learning at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) and CEO and founder of Petanux GmbH with the main research focus on applied deep learning and big data, especially in tackling misinformation (fake-news) and identification of social bots areas. This covers the use of a novel recurrent neural network approach featuring an attention mechanism. Furthermore, Mahdi leads significant researches in the areas of applied deep learning and big data analytics in services of tomorrow covering work 4.0, smart cities and web of things.

The Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) is one of the largest universities in Niedersachsen with about 29,000 students. The subject spectrum reaches from the natural sciences and engineering over humanities and social sciences to economics and law. The L3S Research Center is a joint research institute of several universities in Lower Saxony, Germany, associated with LUH. It includes about 80 employees and its total budget in 2017 amounted to about 8 million Euros, with about ¾ of the budget being third party funding from projects funded by the European Commission, German Research Foundation (DFG), German federal state governments or governmental institutions…