Principal Research Engineer
Prob. Comp. / AI / ML
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (via Deel) — Germany, Remote
I worked with the Probabilistic Computing Group at MIT, and lead the research engineering efforts for the MIT Quest for Intelligence perception moonshot.
My employment was facilitated through Deel, enabling an international remote work setup.
• Focus:
Symbolic AI on steroids • Probabilistic Modeling in JAX • SLAM •
Inference Control • Differentiable Rendering • Spatial AI • Inverse graphics • 3d scene understanding.
Apr 2019 — Oct 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher
AI / ML / Comp. Neurosci.
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge MA, USA
Focus: Localization and planning in the hippocampal formation and how this can inform us about general cognitive computations and intelligence • Neural inspired SLAM • Neural data analysis (TDA, low-dimensional embeddings) • Representation of cognitive spaces
Nov 2017 — Mar 2019
Research Scholar
AI / ML / Comp. Neurosci.
Numenta — Redwood City CA, USA
Role emerged from a month long research visit in Nov 2016 • Focus: Spatial representations in the brain, and their role in more general cognitive computations and intelligence • Emergence of modularity in continuous attractor networks • Relating sparse coding and information-theoretic concepts • Formal framework for Numenta’s sequence memory from a compression perspective
Oct 2015 — Oct 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mathematics
IST Austria | Institute of Science and Technology Austria — Klosterneuburg, Austria
Focus: Combination of mathematics and computer science, including topological data analysis and machine learning • Topological cluster methods • Sparse coding
• Variable order Markov models
Mar 2013 — Jan 2014
Technology and Management Consulting
Accenture — Düsseldorf, Germany
I was a member of the IT Strategy department, with a focus on digital strategies and technology trends.
