He is leading the effort of organizing AutoDL a new large automatic machine learning challenge (following the AutoML series of ChaLearn). Prior to joining Google, André was president of Nhumi technologies, a startup that revolutionized data visualization for healthcare records. He also conducted research for 5 years at IBM Zurich and was a post-doc at the Max Plank Institute. He holds a PhD degree of ENS Lyon, France. André Elisseeff was a co-founder of the Causality Workbench and co-organizer of several challenges on causality.