Björn W. Schuller received his diploma in 1999 and his doctoral degree for his study on Automatic Speech and Emotion Recognition in 2006, both in electrical engineering and information technology from TUM (Munich University of Technology), one of Germany's repeatedly highest ranked and among its first three Excellence Universities.

He is tenured as Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Pattern Recognition and Speech Processing heading the Intelligent Audio Analysis Group at TUM’s Institute for Human-Machine Communication since 2006. From 2009 to 2010 he lived in Paris/France and was with the CNRS-LIMSI Spoken Language Processing Group in Orsay/France dealing with affective and social signals in speech. In 2010 he was also a visiting scientist in the Imperial College London's Department of Computing in London/UK working on audiovisual behaviour recognition. Best known are his works advancing Human-Machine-Interaction, Cognitive Systems, Audiovisual Processing, Affective Computing, and Music Information Retrieval.

Dr. Schuller is a member of the ACM, HUMAINE Association, IEEE and ISCA and (co-)authored 2 books and more than 180 publications in peer reviewed books (14), journals (18), and conference proceedings in the field of signal processing, and machine learning leading to more than 1,000 citations - his current H-index equals 17. He serves as member of the steering committee and guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, as guest editor for the Computer Speech and Language, Speech Communication and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, reviewer for more than 20 further leading journals and multiple conferences in the field, and as invited speaker, session and challenge organizer including the first of their kind INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion and 2010 Paralinguistic Challenges and chairman and programme committee member of numerous international workshops and conferences. Project steering board activity and involvement in current and past research projects include the awarded SEMAINE project funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), and projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and companies as BMW, Continental, Daimler, Siemens, Toyota, and VDO. Advisory board activities comprise his membership as invited expert in the W3C Emotion Incubator and Emotion Markup Language Incubator Groups, and his repeated election into the Executive Committee of the HUMAINE Association where he chairs the Special Interest Group Speech.