"Engineers are usually trained in a very fixed area. When you’re able to think about all of these disciplines together, you kind of think differently and can dream of much crazier things and how they might work. I think that’s really an important thing for the world. That’s how we make progress.”

Work Experience

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appliedAI Initiative GmbH

AI Engineer

June 2023 - Present, Heilbronn

As the first AI Engineer and 2nd employee in the new Heilbronn office, I am building up the technical AI expertise in the upcoming largest EU AI ecosystem Heilbronn together with our local partners and represent appliedAI in various technical workshops, events, and our technical projects together with our industry partners.


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BMW AG

Master Thesis

Sept. 2022 - Feb. 2022, Munich

Machine Learning for Sensor Fusion in Localization. Data-based approaches using situational information to estimate the trustworthyness of sensors for localization by inventing and applying a custom ML architecture for late sensor fusion.


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appliedAI Initiative - UnternehmerTUM

AI Engineer

Jan. 2022 - July 2022, Munich

Very proud to have left the Junior level behind. Still working in the Engineering department covering a wide variety of use-cases together with our partners. Personal highlight for me was the KI Transfer+ program by the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs, where I supported with my technical expertise and also gave workshops on Machine Learning for the companies. Working on various AI projects together with our industry partners to generate value with AI solutions.

Junior AI Engineer

Sept. 2020 - Dec. 2021, Munich

Europe’s largest non-profit initiative for the application of artificial intelligence technology.

Part of UnternehmerTUM, Europe's leading center for start-up and innovation with more than 50 high-growth technology start-ups per year and its unique range of services.


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AUDI AG

Dual Studies in Mechatronics

Oct. 2015 - July 2020, Ingolstadt

Dual studies program at Audi AG, a training program in Mechatronics Engineering and Bachelor's degree. All combined with project work during semester vacations.

Major academic course highlights so far:

Bachelor thesis in the department for Development of predictive Safety Functions

Feb. 2020 - June 2020, Ingolstadt

Real-data-based development of driver behavior models (driver interventions in vehicle dynamics in response to changing vehicle environment) in near-collision situations.

Development of Image Processing for Automated Driving

July 2019 - Sept. 2019, Ingolstadt

Synchronization of Real Time Kinematic Data (RTK) with training and test data sets for the evaluation of image processing algorithms for scene reconstruction and localization of camera positions

Architecture and Prototype Department for Autonomous Driving

July 2017 - Sept. 2017, Ingolstadt

Concept development, designing and programming of a parking lot terminal for Audi Piloted Parking using HTML, CSS, JQuery and a websocket connection.

Audi Production Lab

Feb. 2017 - March 2017, Ingolstadt

Preparation of an automotive concept for a water detection technique based on a conductive lacquer.

Machinary and Plant Engineering in Production

Feb. 2016 - July 2016, Ingolstadt

Conceptional design and implementation of an Automated Guided Vehicle used for logistics.


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SEAT:CODE

Web Developer

Aug. 2018 - Jan. 2019, Barcelona

Working as a Web Developer in an Agile Development Developer Team and launching ByBus - a bus on demand mobility solution. Building the Web Client for the application with real - time situation tracking allowing a fast overview about the status of the service.

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Schanzer Racing Electric e.V.

Developer Autonomous Systems

Sept. 2018 - Oct. 2018, Ingolstadt

Due to the new structure in the organization removing the chiefs, I was again working as a developer in the Autonomous Systems team.

While the software was almost finished for first test runs, we were mainly working on the hardware of the car. Here we needed to connect the DrivePx with all the sensors and actuators to actually get our achievements from our simulation on the street.

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Chief of Autonomous Systems

Sept. 2017 - Sept. 2018, Ingolstadt

Autonomous Systems is responsible for transforming the last years electric car into an autonomous vehicle by upgrading the car with sensor, actuators, processing units and intelligence.

As a Chief of the department I was leading a group of passionate students all interested in the field of Autonomous Driving.

Here is a short summary of what we achieved as team of ~8 students:

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Developer in Computer Vision

March 2017 - Sept. 2017, Ingolstadt

Responsible for sensing the environment using automotive certified GMSL cameras. After receiving the bounding boxes of the neural net, a top view is calculated preparing the data for mapping.

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Education

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Technical University Munich

Master of Science - MS, Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence

2020 - March 2023, Munich, Current Score: 1.3

Major academic course highlights:


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Technical University Ingolstadt

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics

2016 - 2020, Ingolstadt, Final Score: 1.1

Major academic course highlights: