Marc Mengler is the CEO and co-founder of understand.ai based in Karlsruhe, Germany. understand.ai, with a team of 24 highly specialized computer scientists, provides annotated training and validation data using advanced algorithms that drastically improve annotation quality. Marc holds an advanced degree in data science and machine learning, for which he specialized in making neural networks more robust towards input complexities. As well, Marc holds an advanced degree in entrepreneurship for small and medium businesses. On a personal level, Marc has been honored to have played chess against three world champions.

The Pop in your Job: Autonomous driving has a social problem: if it doesn’t become 10x better than manual driving, it will not be accepted. This battle will be won or lost on the correct application of machine learning research. My contribution is to blend artificial intelligence with a business management approach that achieves the benefits of autonomous driving.

understand + artificial intelligence Our company was founded in the belief that a human’s ability to understand, meaning to interpret or view something in a particular way*, can be complemented, enhanced and accelerated by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to a highly repetitive task. Our mission is to push the boundaries of technology and AI to advance the state of autonomous driving. understand.ai provides high-quality training and validation data to enable mobility companies to develop with confidence computer vision and machine learning models that reliably and safely power autonomous vehicles. Our advanced capabilities include segmentation and bounding box annotations for LiDAR and 2D camera data, with specific meta-attributes and instance ID labeling for object tracking. By applying specialized AI technology and continuous quality improvement to accurately and quickly annotate millions of images, we accelerate production of the ground-truth required to make autonomous driving a reality. understand.ai is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany and has offices in Berlin and San Francisco. Our engineers have relevant experience gained at innovative companies such as BMW, Google, Mercedes-Benz. Contact us today to better understand the road ahead. *Oxford Dictionary