Career · Research · Projects

Experience

A timeline of what I’ve built and where — education first, then newest first.

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Education

2022 – 2026

BSc Computer Science & BSc Mathematics

RWTH Aachen University · Aachen, Germany

Two bachelor's degrees, both graduating at the end of 2026, after a one-year leave of absence to found Noboru AI.

BSc Computer Science · 2022 – 2026 · Machine Learning & Data Science · Minor: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
- Thesis at the intersection of process mining and graph neural networks
- 2D/3D deep learning (Point & Vision Transformers) for industrial perception
- Real-time control, ROS 2 middleware and autonomous navigation; web technologies and semantics
BSc Mathematics · 2024 – 2026 · Optimization & Stochastics · Minor: Physics
- Thesis at the intersection of neural network verification and optimization
- Optimization, probability theory, stochastic processes, measure theory, numerical analysis

Research · Part-time

Jul 2026 – Present

Research Assistant

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · Tübingen, Germany · Hybrid

Agentic game development with LLMs in Prof. Michael J. Black's Perceiving Systems department.

Multi-agent generate–validate–refine loop: language-model agents author, run and repair interactive games
Vision-language verification of playability, rule adherence and visual correctness
A strongly typed intermediate representation as the contract between agents and runtime: schema-validated, deterministically compiled, with machine-checkable error feedback
Evaluation harness and automated regression testing; paper in preparation for CVPR

Startup · Co-Founder

2025 – 2026

Co-Founder & CTO

Noboru AI · Aachen & Los Angeles · Remote

An AI-native website agency. I built the autonomous agent that plans and ships on-page optimization, content, schema markup, technical fixes and brand-consistency changes, with every change approved by the client before it goes live.

Live on WordPress, with Shopify / WooCommerce in the MVP
Owned customer onboarding and scoping end to end
Invited to a Techstars interview, approached by Y Combinator, YC Startup School; now in acquisition talks

Research

Apr 2025 – Mar 2026

Research Assistant

RWTH Aachen University · Aachen, Germany · Hybrid

Applied-AI research across two RWTH institutes:

Institut für Textiltechnik (ITA) · Industrial AI Solutions
- Paper “Phantom Non-Identifiability” accepted at the Sim2Science workshop, NeurIPS 2026 (Paris)
- Explainable defect forecasting for KIBAPap (XGBoost, autoencoders, SHAP), AUC 99.53–99.84
- Data-quality pipeline for 25M+ streaming sensor records with anomaly flagging and CUSUM break detection
Werkzeugmaschinenlabor (WZL) · Data Intelligence & AI Engineering · Prof. Günther Schuh
- LLM-based RAG (FAISS) benchmarking innovation maturity across 80+ industrial firms
- MCP tool interfaces and agentic workflows with LangGraph; process mining for optimization
- Bi-level optimization with differentiable CVXPY / PyTorch layers for industrial scheduling

AI Engineering · Contract

2022 – Present

Software Engineer · AI Labs

ORRE EFAB GmbH · Krefeld, Germany · Hybrid

From intern to building EFAB's AI Labs, bringing applied generative AI into the rug-design business.

EFAB AI Labs · Software Engineer · Aug 2024 – Present
- RAG for internal use and the in-house eDesigner software
- GenAI image-generation tool
- Pixel-artifact-free rug-design resizing
EFAB GmbH · Software & Automation Engineer Intern · 2022 – 2023
- Compute-heavy image-processing pipelines in C++ (Qt) with profiling-driven tuning
- Migrated performance-critical Delphi components to modern C++ and C#
- Began porting the eDesigner CAD/CAM tool to the browser via Rust + WebAssembly

Computer Vision · Internship

Apr 2024 – Mar 2025

MLOps & Computer Vision Intern

Fraunhofer IPT · Aachen, Germany · On-site

Visual inspection and anomaly detection on streaming production data (Anomalib, CLIP, WinCLIP)
Zero- and few-shot transfer learning, validated on real production datasets
Optimized edge / cloud inference (ONNX Runtime, quantization, operator fusion) on Docker & Kubernetes, with full MLOps and CI/CD

Brain–Computer Interfaces · XR

Oct 2023 – Mar 2024

Research Assistant in BCI

Uniklinik RWTH Aachen · Aachen, Germany · Hybrid

Unity XR clinical environment for a pediatric cognition study, with a Blender / C# mesh-validation pipeline
EEG and physiological time-series preprocessing
PsychoPy / Django reaction-time experiments with IRB-compliant data workflows

Agency · Co-Founder

Mar 2020 – Aug 2023

Co-Founder · Technical

4stairs GmbH · Düsseldorf, Germany · On-site

Technical co-founder of a digital agency for the real-estate industry, pairing project marketing with proprietary software.

Online & project marketing, real-estate branding
3D renderings & visualizations
Lead generation & sales-mandate acquisition

ifenius
Full-service online-marketing arm: performance advertising, SEO, social, and web.
leadsagentur
Lead-generation venture: qualified customer inquiries via omnichannel campaigns.

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