Wolfgang Pree

Wolfgang Pree, born on 27 June 1964 in Linz, Austria, is a computer scientist and professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He has been a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Salzburg since 2002; he studied computer science at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, a guest scientist at Siemens Munich, and a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Konstanz from 1996 to 2001. His field of research is software engineering, especially software construction principles, and machine learning. His Christian Doppler Laboratory Embedded Software Systems, run from 2007 to 2014 in cooperation with AVL List, focused on real-time software in automobiles and automation systems, and the results were developed into products by the spin-off company Chrona, deployed in Daimler's next generation of electric vehicles since 2019 and 2020. He has done pioneering work in autonomously driving trains on open tracks since 2008, with the autoBAHN project, and in 2017 he initiated Go4IT, which lets high school students attend introductory computer science courses at the University of Salzburg.