Robert Jakob
Robert Jakob
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-MTEC
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Robert Jakob is a Ph.D. candidate and doctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Health Interventions at ETH Zurich. Within his Ph.D., he works on user churn prediction and prevention in digital health interventions with machine learning methods.
In his pursuit of developing churn prediction models, he has collaborated with public institutions and private companies such as the Federal Office of Public Health of the Swiss Confederation (BAG), the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (BLV), the Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction (ISGF), the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Pathmate Technologies AG, and WayBetter Inc.
He has also conducted part of his research at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with Prof. Susan Murphys' Statistical Reinforcement Learning Lab and at the SEC Future Health Technologies Lab at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Robert holds a master’s degree in Technology and Management from Technical University of Munich (TUM) and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Before joining ETH Zürich, Robert founded a mobile games start-up and gained professional experience at Accenture, Fortiss, Infineon, and Volkswagen.
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Membership
| Since | Membership |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| 2024 | Sigma Xi |
| 2023 | ETH AI Center (Associated Researcher) |
| 2023 | European AI Alliance |
| 2023 | Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs |
| 2023 | Harvard Innovation Labs |
| 2023 | Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) |
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2023 | ETH Doc.Mobility Fellowship (Harvard University) |
| 2022 | KITE Award Nominee - Digital Health Project |
| 2017 | BayStartUp Award - Jury price for "Bavaria’s best founders" |
| 2017 | EXIST Business Startup Grant - German Government Stipend for "excellent entrepreneurial potential" |
| 2013 | Volkswagen Foundation Grant - Stipend for "aspiring young academics" |