Since April 2023, Dr Cristian Axenie is Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Heterogenous Sensor Data and Research Group Leader of SPICES Lab at the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm in Nürnberg, Germany. After earning a Dr. Eng. Sc. in Neuroscience and Robotics from Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2016, Dr. Axenie spent one more year as Research Fellow in Neuromorphic Engineering with the TUM Center of Competence Neuroengineering before joining Huawei Research Center in Munich. Between 2017 and 2023 Dr. Axenie was Staff Research Engineer in Enterprise Intelligence for Cloud Solutions with Huawei’s largest research center outside China. At the same time, Dr. Axenie was Head of the Laboratory and Principal Scientist at the Audi Konfuzius-Institut Ingolstadt Laboratory at Technical University of Ingolstadt (THI), a Sino-German research initiative focused on Human-centered Artificial Intelligence. Each term, between 2017 and 2021, Dr. Axenie taught AI and ML for undergrads as Lecturer at THI. Dr. Axenie earned a B. Sc. in Control Engineering and a M. Sc. in Robotics and AI from University of Galati in Romania. Dr. Axenie is a seasoned researcher with 15+ years of academic research and 7+ years of industrial research experience. His research was disseminated in 50+ peer-reviewed publications and 10+ patents.