Robin is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of prenode, an IT startup based in Karlsruhe in the southwest of Germany that provides solutions for decentralized machine learning. Robin did his Ph.D. in designing and developing algorithms and systems for realizing privacy-preserving horizontal and vertical federated machine learning. He is also an associated researcher at the Applied AI in Services Lab at the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In addition, he collaborated with the MIT-IBM AI Lab in Boston as a Visiting Researcher.