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Senior AI Researcher

Aleph Alpha Research

Senior AI Researcher in Aleph Alpha's Foundation Models team, where I focus on LLM pretraining and optimization. In particular, we have developed a new tokenizer-free LLM architecture that allows for efficient pretraining, domain adaptation, and inference. Moreover, we are working on a new optimization methods that allows for efficient training of large models.

• Efficient LLM pretraining
• Tokenizer-free LLM Architectures

Senior Expert 'Robust Scalable Perception'

Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), Robert Bosch GmbH

Making Deep Learning Perception Safe by Model Auditing and Robust Training and Architectures.

• Robustness of Deep Learning (Systematic Errors, Domain Shift, Adversarial Examples)
• Neural Architecture Search
• Synthetic Data

Research Scientist

Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), Robert Bosch GmbH

• Adversarial Examples
• Neural Architecture Search

Project Leader 'CASCADE'

Robotics Research Group, University of Bremen

Leading the subteam in Bremen of the EU project CASCADE

• Surgical Robotics

Team leader 'Sustained Learning'

Robotics Innovation Center, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI RIC, Bremen)

Leading a team of approximately 10 researchers focusing on robotic learning.

• Robot Learning

Research Assistant

Robotics Research Group, University of Bremen

• Reinforcement Learning
• Robot Learning
• Bayesian Optimization

Researcher

Robotics Innovation Center, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI RIC, Bremen)

• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Robot Learning

Research Assistant

Robotics Research Group, University of Bremen

• Reinforcement Learning

Highlighted Reviewer

ICLR 2022

Senior Area Chair

AutoML Conference 2022

Member

ELLIS

Outstanding Reviewer

ICLR 2021

Co-organizer

'Neural Architecture Search' workshop at ICLR 2021

Co-organizer

'Neural Architecture Search' workshop at ICLR 2020

Core Contributor

scikit-learn

Regularly Reviewer

ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, TMLR

Dr.rer.nat. (PhD)

University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Computer Science

Diploma

University Münster, Münster, Germany

Computer Science

Scholarship (2004 - 2006)

Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)

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