[1] Prior to this, he was Head of Data Science at Grail, (an Illumina company),[2] Chief Data Scientist[3] at Human Longevity Inc., and earlier worked for Google as a Distinguished Research Scientist and head of machine translation based at Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters south of San Francisco.
He studied computer science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany, where he graduated with a Dipl.Ing.
In 2002, he received his PhD in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a Research Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California (USC).
He has written several open-source software packages related to statistical natural language processing and was the chief architect of the world-known Google Translate.