Biography
I’m a machine learning researcher with a PhD from the Technical University of Munich, where I have been researching self-play and self-improvement methods for solving complex combinatorial optimization and reasoning problems (at the GrimmLab). I am particularly interested in efficient decoding methods for the underlying sequence models. My work has been published in top ML venues. Before starting my PhD, I worked as an AI consultant at Fujitsu. To pay my bills at uni, I wrote server-side code in Go, Swift, and Node.js for various clients.
I wrote my master’s thesis in Arithmetic Geometry on Tropical Cycle Classes for the Berkovich Analytification of Algebraic Varieties and my bachelor’s thesis on Tropical Hypersurfaces of Laurent Polynomials, both investigating the combinatorial shadow of algebraic varieties, the central object of study in Algebraic Geometry.
My brother Niklas is a quantum computing researcher.
- Reinforcement Learning
- Natural Language Generation
- Reasoning
- Combinatorial Optimization
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Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude)
Technical University of Munich
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M.Sc. Mathematics
University of Regensburg
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B.Sc. Mathematics
University of Regensburg
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MFA Visual Communication
University of Art and Design Kassel
- 25/06/2025: Invited talk at Blue Yonder. Title: Self-improvement methods in neural combinatorial optimization.
- 01/04/2025: Talk at Weihenstephan Bioinformatics Symposium 2025. Title: GraphXForm: Graph transformer for molecular design. Best talk award.
- 18/03/2025: Invited talk at NAVER LABS Europe. Title: Self-improvement methods in neural combinatorial optimization
- 21/11/2024: Invited talk at AI x Design Meetup Regensburg @intive GmbH. Title: AlphaZero could reason, LLMs can’t. Now what?
- 21/10/2024: Oral presentation of our paper “Take a step and reconsider” at European Conference on Artifical Intelligence (ECAI) 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- 29/8/2024: Invited talk at Munich Datageeks August. Title: Neural Combinatorial Optimization: Methods and Challenges
Some links to math stuff I wrote:
- Forms on the Analytification of Algebraic Varieties
- Laplacian on metrized graphs, talk on Potential theory on the Berkovich projective line
- Group orders of elliptic curves over finite fields, including a sweet proof of quadratic reciprocity (in German)
- Algebraic differential equations