Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, LMU Munich(2020 – present)
M.Sc. Computer Science, LMU Munich(2018 – 2020)
B.Sc. Media Informatics, LMU Munich(2014 – 2018)
A Levels, Otfried-Preußler-Gymnasium Pullach(2006 – 2014)
Professional Experience
Research Associate, LMU Munich(2020 – present)
Research Assistant, LMU Munich(2019 – 2020)
Web Developer, Polyteia, Munich(2017 – 2018)
Working Student, Ray Sono, Munich(2015 – 2017)
Project Experience
AI-Fusion: Evaluation of Emergence in Distributed AI Systems(2022 – present)
Transferring safe intelligence from research to application
Funding: Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy
Partner: Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems
Munich Quantum Valley(2021 – present)
Promote quantum science and technologies to develop and operate competitive quantum computers
Funding: Bavarian state government with funds from the Hightech Agenda Bayern
Partner: BAdW, DLR, FhG, FAU, MPG, TUM
QAR-Lab: Quantum Applications and Research Laboratory(2021 – 2022)
Building a Bavarian ecosystem for quantum computing and user expertise
Funding: Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy
PlanQK: Platform and Ecosystem for Quantum-Assisted Artificial Intelligence(2020 – 2022)
Create a technical basis for knowledge and technology exchange on quantum-assisted AI
Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
InnoMI – Innovation Center Mobile Internet(2020 – 2022)
Research on innovative mobile and distributed systems
Funding: Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy
Teaching Experience
Working Group Artificial Intelligence(2023 – present)
Practical Course Autonomous Systems(2022 – present)
Practical Course Affective Computing(2021 – present)
Thesis Supervision (8 master theses, 9 bachelor theses)(2021 – present)
Volunteer work
Head of Office, Digitale Stadt München e.V.(2021 – present)
Festival Booking and Artist Relations, Kulturspektakel Gauting e.V.(2017 – present)
Professional services
Program Committee: AAAI, ACII, IJCAI, QAIO
Reviewer: ICLR, ICML, Neural Computing and Applications, NeurIPS, RLC, SN Computer Science
Program Committee, 1st Quantum Artificial Intelligence and Optimization (QAIO2025)
Reviewer, 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)
Program Committee, 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025)
Reviewer, 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)
Reviewer, 1st Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC 2024)
Program Committee, 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024)
Reviewer, 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024)
Reviewer, Neural Computing and Applications (since 2024)
Reviewer, Springer Nature Computer Science (since 2024)
Reviewer, 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024)
Reviewer, 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)
Program Committee, 31st International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2023)
Research Interests
Collective Intelligence(2021 - present)
Reinforcement Learning(2017 - present)
Quantum Machine Learning(2017 - present)
Evolutionary Optimization(2017 - present)
Collective Intelligence(2021 - present)
Reinforcement Learning(2017 - present)
Quantum Machine Learning(2017 - present)
Evolutionary Optimization(2017 - present)
Challenges
Exploration
Robustness
Alignment