Dr. Gerd Große is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cognidata GmbH.
His research interests are in artificial intelligence methods for industrial applications. He studied computer science in Braunschweig and Edinburgh. Afterwards he did research in this field at Stanford, Darmstadt (phd) and Pisa.
Dr. Große's professional career started at Lufthansa Systems where he designed and implemented a variety of IT systems for flight planning and revenue management. Subsequently he was appointed to head the outsourcing activities at Gedas, the former Volkswagen subsidiary for IT.
Dr. Große is voluntarily working as Chairman of the non-profit organisation Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Forschungstransfers e.V. (GFFT).