# Yaniv Steiner, Design and Intelligence

> "I design and build things that explore the relationship between humans, machines and intelligence."

Yaniv Steiner is an **AI Strategist & University Lecturer**, **AI Practitioner (physical AI)**, **Principal Experience Technologist**, interaction designer, and physical computing pioneer. With over two decades at the frontier of hardware, data systems, and artificial intelligence, he investigates how intelligent systems perceive, interact with, and reshape the physical and cultural world.

## Contact & Opportunities
- **Email**: y.steiner@gmail.com
- **Availability**: Keynote Lectures, University Masterclasses, AI Strategy & Physical AI Advisory, High-Stakes Prototyping, Strategy Workshops
- **Primary Locations**: Switzerland, Italy, UK, International / Remote

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## Areas of Expertise & Roles

### 1. AI Strategist & University Lecturer
- **Generative AI & Visual Culture**: "Silver, Salt, and Silicon — The Sentient Image" (Transition from recording the visual world to machine hallucinations).
- **Academic Teaching**: Lead AI Lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU); visiting lecturer across European design academies (CIID, IUAV, Bezalel, NABA, IED Torino).
- **AI Strategy & Innovation**: Guiding leadership, researchers, and creative studios in leveraging LLMs, synthetic media, and generative toolchains.

### 2. AI Practitioner, Physical AI & Autonomous Systems
- **Embodied & Physical AI**: Designing and testing physical systems that embed AI decision models directly into materials, aerodynamics, sensors, and hardware.
- **Autonomous Flight Systems**: High-speed jet-powered airframes with onboard AI decision systems and sensor-driven autonomous aerodynamics with AROLAB.
- **Physical Computing & Future Interfaces**: From early workbench prototypes to orbital satellites. Incubating accessible hardware (Wiring & Arduino at IDII).
- **Private & Edge AI**: Local-first intelligence, LoRa/mesh networks, and privacy-preserving ambient computing.

### 3. Strategic Advisory & Work Proposals
- **AI & Autonomous Product Strategy**: Integrating LLMs, vision models, and local edge intelligence into physical products and architectural environments.
- **Zero-to-One Physical Prototyping**: "Build the ugly version first" methodology. Rapid hardware/software iteration that proves concepts in days rather than months of theoretical slide decks.

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## Core Case Studies & Achievements

- **Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII)**: Incubator lab for Wiring and Arduino. Designed foundational platforms that made electronics and physical computing accessible to designers worldwide.
- **Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)**: Lead AI Lecturer for Master of Design students, teaching Transformers, LLMs, Generative Design, and the Sentient Image.
- **European Commission — Europe Media Monitor (EMM) & MediSys**: Real-time large-scale multilingual news analysis, entity recognition, trend detection, anti-fraud, OSINT, and crisis monitoring systems. Co-authored arXiv paper (arXiv:1603.02604).
- **AROLAB Autonomous Flight**: Jet-powered airframes with onboard AI decision systems and sensor-driven autonomous aerodynamics.
- **Physical Prototyping & Strategy**: "Build the ugly version first" methodology. Direct hands-on testing with actual constraints over theoretical consulting decks.
- **Exhibitions & Industry Work**: Works exhibited at Salone del Mobile (Milan), Artemide, Hitachi, Mario Canali Virtual Sumo, and high-end IoT interior architectural systems.

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## Detailed Sections & Direct Links
- [Sitemap & Navigation Index](https://yanivsteiner.com/sitemap): Complete directory of case studies, lectures, and machine endpoints.
- [Lectures & AI Essays](https://yanivsteiner.com/understand-ai): "Silver, Salt & Silicon — The Sentient Image" presentation and lecture slides.
- [Academic Career & Teaching](https://yanivsteiner.com/learn-something): Interaction Ivrea, Arduino roots, HSLU Lucerne, Bezalel, IUAV, NABA, CIID, IED Torino.
- [Prototyping & Problem Solving Methodology](https://yanivsteiner.com/problem-to-solve): The build-first philosophy, rapid iteration, and field testing.
- [Autonomous Flight Systems](https://yanivsteiner.com/fly): Jet airframes, AROLAB, and AI control.
- [Selected Inventions & Works](https://yanivsteiner.com/see-what-youve-made): Chronology of interactive systems, touchless interfaces, data platforms, and mycelium studies.
- [Europe Media Monitor & Data & Design](https://yanivsteiner.com/europe-media-monitor): Multilingual intelligence systems for the European Commission.
- [Work Proposals & Speaking Inquiries](https://yanivsteiner.com/work-with-you): Direct contact information and collaboration channels.