Philipp Witte

About

I am a researcher at Microsoft Research for Industry, a new initiative within Microsoft for developing innovative research solutions for industry-related problems ranging from AI/ML to edge- and high-performance computing. Prior to Microsoft, I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Geophysics from the University of Hamburg and his Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. During my Ph.D. I worked with Professor Felix J. Herrmann at the Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling (SLIM) on computational aspects of large-scale geophysical inversion. I authored and contributed to multiple open-source software packages, including Devito, the Julia Devito Inversion framework (JUDI) and InvertibleNetworks.jl, a Julia framework for deep learning with normalizing flows. At Microsoft, my research revolves around adopting the cloud for high-performance scientific computing and on data-driven approaches for scenarios in energy and sustainability.