APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER

Dec 2019 - Present

Took open source models (CV and NLP) and optimized them for distributed training. Improved usability of the internal product by building documentation and testing features.

CO-FOUNDER

Feb 2018 - Nov 2019

Head of Research at IronChain Capital - a San Francisco based cryptocurrency startup to streamline access to this emerging market.

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

Nov 2016 -Jan 2018

Research at the intersection of mathematics and engineering at University of California Berkeley, USA. Primary topics of interest include phase transformations in solid crystals and problems related to quasiconvexity.

PHD

Oct 2012 - Oct 2016

DPhil under the supervision of Professor Sir John Ball at University of Oxford, UK. Topic of Dphil dissertation: "Variational Models in Martensitic Phase Transformations with Applications to Steels".

DIPLOM

May 2008 - May 2012

Diplom Degree (German equivalent of bachelor's and master's degree) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Topic of Diplom dissertation: "Regularity of eigenfunctions of Schrödinger operators with L^p-potential" under the supervision of Professor Laszlo Erdös.