Michael Jahrer studied telematics at the University of Technology Graz (TU Graz). The focus of his master studies lies on machine learning and computer vision. At the moment his research is concentrated on large-scale-recommender systems in combination with state-of-the-art algorithms. He is constantly working out new ideas in the field of machine learning. Michael Jahrer was co-founder of team BigChaos. His work for commendo covers the area of algorithmic development.