Rasmus Rothe is the co-founder and CTO of Berlin-based Merantix, the AI investment platform, co-initiator of the AI Campus Berlin, the leading AI community hub in Berlin, and a renowned deep learning researcher.

He has published over 15 academic papers with more than 2000 citations on deep learning while attending Oxford, Princeton, and ETH Zurich, where he received his Ph.D and launched a face recognition service with 150m+ users.

In 2019, he was featured on Forbes “30 under 30”. Rasmus is a founding board member of the German Association of AI, devising and implementing the national AI strategy in close cooperation with the German government.