Dr. Tobias Jacobs received a PhD with summa cum laude from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2009. From 2009-2011 he worked as a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan. Tobias joined NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH in Heidelberg/Germany in 2011, where working as a senior researcher on topics of machine learning and computational optimization in the domains of energy, logistics, and smart city.