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Postdoc

Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg

• Supervising PhD students, including project planning, writing project proposals for funding, assessing applicants, supervising Masters and Bachelors theses
• Holding lectures, creating presentations and figures, presenting at international conferences
• Coordinating collaboration between departments and research groups, e.g. the university hospital and robotics lab, presentations to stakeholders at different organizational levels
• Organizing team building and social events, including group retreats
• Published 20 papers with 919 citations in total

Research Intern, Andressen Horowitz Internship Program

Symbio Robotics

• Developed computer vision algorithms for the rapid automation of manual tasks in automotive vehicle assembly
• Company wide final project presentation, publication of results in academic journal

PhD Student

Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg

• Researched and published papers at top conferences in the areas of computer vision, reinforcement learning, and self-supervised learning, etc.
• Supervised seminars, Bachelor and Master theses

Researcher, Diagnostic Image Analysis Group

Radboud University

• Researched computer vision algorithms for the automated assessment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) from CT scans in the context of medical screening
• Project conception for self-supervised learning of image diagnoses

Intern, Berkeley Artifical Intelligence Lab (BAIR)

University of Berkeley

• Researched self-supervised pre-training for reinforcement learning at BAIR with Professor Trevor Darell

Intern & Software Engineer, Visual Perception Group

Mercedes-Benz Group

• Developed computer vision algorithms for 3D map reconstruction, optical flow and evaluated CNNs for vehicle detection at the visual perception group

Intern, Robotics and Mechatronics Center

German Areospace Center

• Designed and implemented a grasp planner for the Justin and Hasy robots as well as physics simulation integrating Bullet Physics Engine with the OpenRave project

Intern, Fixed Income Currency and Commodities (FICC)

Goldman Sachs

• Immersive internship focused on understanding all operational areas with a focus on smart order routing algorithmic trading systems

Intern, PIMCO Germany

PIMCO

• Conceived and implemented a system to parse and format risk report data into an email mailing list for effective distribution using Django and SQL

Voluenteer

UWC Robert Bosch College

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PhD

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Computer Science

• Approaches for Robotic Manipulation

M.Sc.

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

Physics

• Image Segmentation with CNNs