ABOUT​

CREATING DISRUPTIVE CHANGES - THAT IS THE GOAL!

DAVID

David grew up in Cologne, Germany. After his studies of architecture, he gained a broad working experience with various architecture and design studios in Germany and the Netherlands.

Always equally interested in creating both architecture and design, he founded his own studio atomare.com as a unified label to provide design services with an ambitious focus on contemporary concepts and styling.

Taking real and virtual spaces equally important and determined to create outstanding and substantial experiences David joined Goethelino to make a difference in online tutoring.

KAY

Kay Berkling obtained her PhD at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology (today OHSU) in 1996 in the area of Automatic Language Identification of Telephone Speech in Computer Science. Since then she has published in Language and Automatic Dialect Identification. Her expertise lies in joining linguistic knowledge with statistical information and combining know-how across disciplines.

After working for Lincoln Laboratory, MIT she joined Ubilab, the innovation lab of UBS. The following five years she collaborated on a number of international projects in the financial industries and gained extensive experience on projects and managing the interface between IT and Business. In 2004 she was named Full Professor at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico in the area of Software Engineering. She has a number of publications in project estimation and teaching methods.

In 2008 she immigrated to Germany where she added a degree in teaching to her repertoire in order to extend the research into German language and didactics. Her most recent publications are in automatic diagnostics of spelling errors for learners of German handwriting leveraging speech technology.

Current projects relate to applying these diverse technologies to computer-based learning for children in the context of gamification, thereby integrating research projects with teaching of Software Engineering Projects. Kay Berkling mostly teaches Software Engineering and Algorithms at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg. In her free time, she teaches student teachers how to integrate technology in the language learning classroom.

Areas of Interest and Teaching

 

• Speech Recognition and Synthesis Applied to Child-Computer Interfaces

• Gamification

• Project Management Tools for Software Engineers

• Algorithms

• Language Learning with Modern Media in the Context of Research Projects