Karin Schnass

Karin Schnass (born 1980)[1] is an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on sparse dictionary learning.[2] She is an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck.[3]

Schnass receiving the Start-Preis in June 2014. Beside her is Reinhold Mitterlehner, Austrian Minister of Economy.

Education and career

Schnass was born in Klosterneuburg.[1] She earned a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Vienna in 2004, with a thesis surveying Gabor multipliers supervised by Hans Georg Feichtinger.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in communication and information sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2009. Her dissertation was Sparsity & Dictionaries – Algorithms & Design, and her doctoral advisor was Pierre Vandergheynst.[3][4]

After postdoctoral research at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz[3] (chosen over Stanford University to stay close to her family)[5] and as an Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow at the University of Sassari and University of Innsbruck, she joined the Innsbruck Department of Mathematics as an assistant professor in 2016.[3]

Recognition

Schnass was a winner of the Start-Preis of the Austrian Science Fund in 2014.[1] She was a keynote speaker at iTWIST 2016.[2]

gollark: The code/paper you find isn't going to be conveniently usable by just downloading it and copypasting it into your AI's code or something. You'll probably have to actually understand how it works, yet another unfathomable general intelligence task, figure out how it interfaces with the rest of the code or if it can even be used together at all, and possibly rewrite it entirely to fit with what you need.
gollark: "Pluck it out" is also easy to say, but it's actually even harder.
gollark: "Find useful stuff" also sounds pleasantly easy, but it's *not*. Even a human reading a repository or paper may struggle to find "useful" bits; reasoning about the relevance of a new set of information or methods for a project is a difficult general intelligence task.
gollark: I mean, "list of AI" is probably easy enough, you could just... search github using some keywords, and maybe research papers.
gollark: Just because you can describe a task in a sentence or so doesn't mean you can give a description clear and detailed enough to think about programming it.

References
  1. Drei START-Preise an Universität Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, June 17, 2014, retrieved 2018-12-11
  2. Arildsen, Thomas (July 6, 2016), "iTWIST'16 Keynote Speakers: Karin Schnass", Adventures in Signal Processing and Open Science
  3. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2018-12-11
  4. Karin Schnass at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Schnass, Karin, "Ajó!* – Off to Sardinia", scilog, Austrian Science Fund, retrieved 2018-12-11
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