Claus Bahlmann, works with Siemens Mobility as Head of AI and Principal for AI and CV. In these roles, he and his team are incubating strategic R&D programs for Siemens Mobility, such as the Assisted and Driverless Driving for Rail program or the Deep Learning Factory, Siemens Mobility's ecosystem for Machine & Deep learning development. He is serving the BMBF (Germany's Ministry of Education & Research) initiated platform Lernende Systeme - AG Mobilität to collaborate across German industry and research organizations on strategic directions to advance AI for society. Before joining Siemens Mobility, Claus worked since 2004 as Research Scientist for Siemens Corporate Technology in Princeton, NJ, USA, developing Machine Learning and Computer Vision technology for ADAS, healthcare, and security applications. He graduated from University of Freiburg in 2003 with a PhD degree on Machine Learning with "summa cum laude". He has co-authored more than 20 publications in Computer Vision, Machine Learning & ADAS with 2700+ citations. He was co-awarded best-paper awards in IV 2008 and IWFHR 2002 and the Wolfgang-Gentner-Nachwuchsförderpreis in 2003.