CV
Curriculum Vitae
Academic and professional career
Career
- 2023 – present
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Hochschule Düsseldorf· Düsseldorf, Deutschland
Teaching and research in the Faculty of Media: Introduction to AI, Machine Perception & Tracking, Advances in AI. Focus areas: computer vision, data fusion, and generative models.
- 2018 – 2023
Engineering Group Manager AI Core
APTIV Services Deutschland GmbH· Wuppertal, Deutschland
People management for an international team in Wuppertal, Krakow, and Bangalore. Technical and disciplinary leadership for the development of AI/ML core technology for autonomous driving.
- 2016 – 2018
Technical Lead Vision Systems
APTIV Services Deutschland GmbH· Wuppertal, Deutschland
Technical leadership of a team for camera-based object and traffic sign detection.
- 2011 – 2016
Algorithm Development Engineer
APTIV Services Deutschland GmbH· Wuppertal, Deutschland
Algorithm development for camera-based AI systems in driver assistance.
- 2008 – 2011
Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.)
Universität Duisburg-Essen· Duisburg, Deutschland
Thesis: "Multi Sensor Data Fusion in the Scope of an Automotive Collision Imminent Braking System". Funded by a scholarship from APTIV Services Deutschland GmbH (formerly DELPHI). Grade: magna cum laude.
- 2003 – 2008
Diplom-Informatiker (Applied Computer Science)
Universität Duisburg-Essen· Duisburg, Deutschland
Focus: speech and image processing systems. Final grade 1.6.