Anton Schwaighofer is working as an Applied Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. His current area of focus is data analysis & machine learning, with applications to online advertising. He is a computer scientist by training, but moved on to work in statistical machine learning for his PhD (TU Graz, Austria). After working for some time on computational chemistry at the Intelligent Data Analysis group at a Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, he joined Microsoft Research in February 2008.