Borth was born in Poland. The family moved to Germany when Damian was six years old. He grew up in
Mannheim and
Heidelberg. At the Carl-Benz-School he finished high school in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he studied telecommunications engineering to obtain a degree as
Diplomingenieur. From 2003 until 2007, he was employed by
Daimler Benz in the
Republic of China,
Taipei, to write software for the training of employees in Asia. Then, he studied informatics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and got his Master Degree in 2010. During the following Ph.D. studies, he was a Visiting Researcher with the
Digital Video and Multimedia Laboratory at the
Columbia University in
New York City during 2012. After obtaining his Ph.D. in the field of video analysis in 2014, he did postdoctoral research at the
University of California, Berkeley and the
International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley together with
Jitendra Malik and
Alexei A. Efros. At the
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI, he was Principle Investigator of the NVIDIA AI Lab. For his work at the
Deep Learning Competence Center of DFKI, a German newspaper called Borth
Germany’s Mister Deep Learning. He co-founded
Sociovestix Laboratories, a social enterprise in the area of financial data science. In September 2018, Borth started as
Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He helped this university to establish a computer science department. This computer is part of a specialized computer facility in
Gais AR. Borth teaches at the
School of Computer Science lectures in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence at the bachelor and master level. He also is involved in executive education at other departments of the University of St. Gallen as well as at the collaborative executive education program with the
ETH Zurich. As Academic Director of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science in St. Gallen, he already advised several Ph.D. candidates. == Other Activities ==