Elgar Fleisch

Elgar Fleisch (born January 22, 1968, in Bregenz, Austria) is an Austrian/Swiss Professor of Information and Technology Management at ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen.

[1] Elgar Fleisch graduated 1987 in mechanical engineering at the HTL Bregenz, studied information systems at the University of Vienna, and received his PhD in 1993 in Machine Learning.

In 1994 he completed his postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) on enterprise networks.

[6] Since 1999, Prof. Fleisch's research interest focused on the merger of the physical and digital worlds to an Internet of Things.

Together with his team, he pursues the goal of understanding this fusion with a specific focus on technology, applications and implications.