Position
Founder cnlab information technology research AG
Peter Heinzmann and Paul Schöbi founded cnlab itr AG in 1997. He was the CTO until 2019 and managed projects in performance and user experience benchmarking. He was also a professor of information security and computer networks at the HSR University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil until his retirement in 2019. In 2020, he handed over the reins to Eric Franke and now occasionally assists with performance benchmarking projects. He primarily focuses on internet usage via satellite and the use of intelligent assistants in various areas of application in his part-time projects.
Education
Electrical Engineering at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Dipl. El. Ing. ETH
Dr. sc. Techn. ETH
Native Language
German
Other Languages
English (fluent), French (fluent)
Year of birth
1954
Professional Experience
- 2020 till today
Access the internet via satellite and use intelligent assistants in various applications. - 1997 till 2020
cnlab Information Technology Research AG, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Partner and Technical Director - 1991 till 2019 (part time since 1998)
University of Applied Sciences Eastern Switzerland, HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
Professor for Information Security and Computer Networks, Continued education courses (Internet Technologies, Information Security and Privacy) - 1987 - 1991
Research Staff Member, IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, High-Speed LAN/MAN group, focusing on architectural and network reconfiguration issues - 1984 - 1987
Institute for Communications Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Leading the research group "Fiber Optics and Local Area Networking" - 1979 - 1984
Institute for Communications Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Assistant and PhD student to Prof. Dr. P. Leuthold working in number theory, cryptography, fiber optics and LAN/MAN