My life in numbers

Professional experience

Recycletek
NY, USA
2023 – today

Chief AI & Information Officer

We are working on a next-gen recycling ecosystem for the US!
Besides building customer- and industry-facing AI-driven counting/sorting machines, we also develop seamless and digitally integrated pickup/dropoff- and payment-solutions.

Schufa Holding AG,
WI, Germany
2019 – 2022

Datascience Systems Engineer

in the department “Innovation & Strategic Analysis”

University of Frankfurt/
Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies,
Frankfurt, Germany
2013 – 2019

Research Fellow & PhD Candidate in the Center for Cognition and Computation

My research interest is focused on cognitive vision systems, with an emphasis on biologically inspired continuous learning and memory updates.

Researcher for BMBF Project „Bernstein:Focus Neuroscience“, Research and Development of an integrated cognitive framework

Collaboration in EU Project „AEROBI“, automatic defect-detection and -classification oninfrastructure using UAVs

Development of ADAS-Systems in collaboration with automotive suppliers

Design and supervision of several machine-learning- and systems-engineering-practices und -lectures

Research in artificial vision-systems in the sectors automotive, surveillance and robotics in the context of a dissertation

VW Hackathon (codeFEST8),
Hannover, Germany,
2015

1st Place VW Hackathon (codeFEST8) at CeBit Hannover

Conception and backend-development with the team Road-Genius

University of Frankfurt,
Frankfurt, Germany
2008 – 2012

Student helper in the group
“Visual sensorics and information processing”

Design, development and implementation of a robot-platform based on the SLAM-paradigm.

Development of a high-speed scientific recording framework to capture synchronized image streams of a set of Pt.Grey cameras (e.g. Ladybug2) and stereo-vision setups.

Development and mentoring of the internships “Robotics and visual sensorics” and “Mixed Reality Robot Games: Real Robots in Virtual Games”

Fraport AG,
Frankfurt, Germany,
2006 – 2009

Working student at the airport Frankfurt

Baggage and freight handling at the division “Ground services”, customer-assistance and -guidance of international passengers in the “Short connex” service.

BASF,
Ludwigshafen, Germany,
2004 – 2006

Working student

Diverse fill- and baggaging tasks and forklift pallet transportations.

Formal Education

University of Frankfurt,
Frankfurt, Germany
2013 – 2019

PhD in Computer Science / AI

My research interest is focused on cognitive vision systems, with an emphasis on biologically inspired continuous learning and memory updates.

Degree: Dr. rer. nat.,
Grade: Magna cum laude

University of Frankfurt,
Frankfurt, Germany
2003 – 2013

Diploma in Computer Science

Diploma in Computer Science

Main study period:

  • Advanced technical/practical computer science
  • Databases
  • Robotics
  • Visual sensorics and pattern recognition
  • Analysis of internet- and graph algorithms
  • Minor subject: Political science

Basic study period:

  • Technical computer science
  • Theoretical computer science
  • Practical computer science
  • Mathematics (discrete, numerical, stochastic math and linear algebra)
  • Minor subject: Political science

Degree: Diploma,
Grade: “Very good”

Friedrich-Magnus-Schwerd Gymnasium,
Speyer, Germany
1996 – 2003

Abitur

Main areas of study:

  • English
  • Biology
  • German

Degree: University entrance diploma

Certificates

2024Google UX DesignSpecialization @Google
2022Innovation: From Creativity to EntrepreneurshipSpecialization @University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2022Strategic Leadership and ManagementSpecialization @University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021Google Project ManagementSpecialization @Google
2021SQL For Data ScienceCertificate @University of California, Davis
2020AWS Fundamentals: Building Serverless ApplicationsCertificate @Amazon Web Services
2020Fundamentals of Kubernetes DeploymentCertificate @LearnQuest
2020Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core InfrastructureCertificate @Google Cloud
2018Probabilistic Graphical ModelsCertificate @Stanford University
2018Sequence ModelsCertificate @deeplearning.ai
2017Robotics: Estimation and LearningCertificate @University of Pennsylvania
2016Machine Learning: Clustering and RetrievalCertificate @University of Washington
2016Practical predictive analytics: Models and methodsCertificate @University of Washington