Professional Experience
May 2021 – today
- Defined and operationalized IT strategies
- Built new digital and analytics units
- Managed large IT programs & projects
- Modernized data and system architectures
- Implemented innovative data & analytics use cases
Jul 2020 – Apr 2021
- Developed a clustering-based method for the early detection of field quality problems
- Developed an interpretability approach for predictions from “black box” ML models
- Implemented a configurable data pipeline for processing high-dimensional mixed-type quality data
- Analyzed quality data using latest machine learning methods (e.g., HDBSCAN, BERT)
- Developed a software for interactive exploration of high-dimensional data
Apr 2019 – Aug 2019
- Developed an automated opportunity scoring method for a German SME
- Developed a procedure for entity extraction from reports for a British SME
- Created training material and conducted workshops for two big tech players
Oct 2017 – Mar 2018
- Supported in the buildup of a cross-sectional digital department in a bank
- Designed an agile process model for the new digital department
- Evaluated markets and explored use cases for an NLP startup
Oct 2016 – Mar 2019
- Led the five-headed developer team of the learning motivation app StudyNow
- Extended a web crawler for collecting data for scientific studies
- Planned and conducted a series of workshops as part of a mentoring program for freshmen
- Extended a software for tracking social media trends and news headlines for an SME
Education
May 2023 – today
- Research Topic: Strategic Decision-Making with Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Research Group Social Computing, Prof. Georg Groh
- Papers written: See my research
Apr 2018 – Dec 2020
- Grade: GPA 4.0 / 4.0 (best in cohort)
- Focus: Machine Learning, Statistics, Data Science
- Thesis: Finding and Describing Clusters of Vehicle Quality Issues in Mixed-Type High-Dimensional Data (in cooperation with BMW)
Sep 2019 – Dec 2019
- Grade: GPA 4.30 / 4.30 (best in cohort)
- Focus: Strategic Management & International Negotiations
- Papers written: How Does Blockchain Technology Impact Business Models? | Tesla Moving Forward | The European Migrant Crisis and the EU-Turkey Agreement
Oct 2014 – Aug 2017
- Grade: GPA 3.7 / 4.0 (best in cohort)
- Focus: Software Engineering, Decision Support & Operations Research
- Thesis: Simulation of storage and retrieval strategies for stack-based warehouse systems (later turned into a paper)
Oct 2014 – Aug 2017
- Grade: 1.0 (best in cohort)
- Advanced courses: Mathematics, Physics
- Extracurriculars: Conducted a large-scale research survey among 900+ scholars (results published as a book), enrolled as a junior student at the University of Bielefeld in Theoretical Physics