CV

Education

• 2008: Abitur
• 2009-2013: B.Sc. in Computer Science (Freiburg University)
  • minor in Political Sciences
  • Bachelor Thesis in Robotics
• 2013-2016: M.Sc. in Computer Science (Ulm University)
  • minor in Psychology
  • Master Thesis in Affective Computing
• 2024: PhD in Machine Learning (Dr. rer. nat.)
  • Title: Adaptive Learning Models for Information-Efficient Lifelong Machine Learning
  • passed with the highest honours (summa cum laude)

Work experience

• since 12/2022: Senior Data Scientist at the StepStone Group
  • Applied Research and Development at the AI Labs
• 12/2016-11/2022: Research Assistant at Ulm University
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Daniel A. Braun
• 05/2016 - 11/2016: Software Engineer at BitTwister IT, Ulm
  • Developing IT Infrastructure for Machine Learning applications

Research Interests

• Reinforcement Learning
• Meta-Learning
• Continual Learning
• Self-supervised Learning

Technical Skills

• Tensorflow
• Python
• C/C++
• Matlab

Methodical Skills

• Neural Networks
• Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling
• Variational Methods
• Monte-Carlo Methods