About Prof. Dr. Tobias Sutter
Tobias Sutter received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zürich in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich in 2017.
From 2021 to 2025, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Konstanz. Since 2025, he holds a professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of St. Gallen. He has also held research and teaching positions at EPFL with the Chair of Risk Analytics and Optimization, and at the Institute for Machine Learning at ETH Zürich.
His research focuses on data-driven robust optimization, reinforcement learning, and dynamic decision-making under uncertainty. Prof. Sutter is the recipient of the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society (2016) and the ETH Medal (2018) for his outstanding doctoral thesis on approximate dynamic programming
