I am a Senior AI Scientist at SAP working on foundation models for tabular data. My research interests lie in machine learning and its applications in challenging practical scenarios – currently with a focus on tabular representation learning and large tabular models.
Previously, I was a Research Team Lead at Merantix Momentum, which I joined in early 2022 as a Senior Machine Learning Researcher, focussing on ML applications in manufacturing. Prior, I obtained a PhD from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) under the supervision of Michael Heizmann, where I worked on compressive light field imaging and other 3D and spectral imaging-related problems in Computer Vision. Here, I have obtained expertise in image and signal processing, compressed sensing, computer vision, and deep learning. Moreover, I have hands-on experience with camera hardware, prototyping, calibration, and real-world and synthetic dataset creation.
I received a B.S. in Physics from Jena University in 2013 and a M.S. in Physics from Leipzig University in 2016. In my Master’s thesis I worked on quantum fields in curved spacetimes, investigating the quantization of the Proca field in globally hyperbolic spacetimes and its zero mass limit, under supervision of Ko Sanders and Stefan Hollands. Despite having switched my main focus to computer vision, I still enjoy catching up with the latest physics news.