Curriculum vitae
| Since 09/2019 | Visiting Researcher and Data Scientist at FluroSat, Sydney (AU) |
| 04/2019 | TRUST Measurement Campaign in Peru |
| 09/2018 | "Brain to Market" Summer School in Paris about neuropathology and entrepreneurship (aftermovie) |
| 07/2018 | VISUM Summer School in Porto (PT) about machine learning and computer vision (aftermovie) |
| Since 06/2018 | Participant of the KIT mentoring program X-Ment for researchers |
| Since 01/2018 | MBA fellow at the Collège des ingénieurs (CDI) in Paris, France |
| Since 05/2017 | PhD student at the Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| 01/2016 - 05/2018 | Lecturer at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in the degree programm "computer science" (see teaching) |
| 10/2014 - 03/2017 | Master of Science in physics at the KIT, major in "data analysis in particle physics" |
| Masterthesis: "Boosted-Jet Reconstruction Methods in a Search for Higgs-Boson Production in Association with a Top-Quark-Antiquark Pair at the CMS Experiment" at the Institute of Experimental Nuclear Physics (EKP) of the KIT with Prof. Dr. Husemann | |
| 10/2011 - 09/2014 | Bachelor of Science in physics at the KIT |
Research interests
- Machine Learning: Data Analysis, Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Self-Organizing Maps (SOM), Deep Learning, Python
- Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, Multispectral Satellites (Sentinel-2), UAV
- Geoscience: estimation of soil surface parameters
Teaching
- Introduction to linear algebra, analysis and statistics at the DHBW Karlsruhe
- Introduction to knowledge-based systems at the DHBW Karlsruhe
- Introduction to LaTeX at the DHBW Karlsruhe
Other profiles
- Professional network via LinkedIn
- Code & datasets at GitHub
- Publications at GoogleScholar
- Publications at ResearchGate
Awards
- Best Paper Award at the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019 in Enschede (NL)
Workshops, talks and posters
| June 2019 | Talk about the publication "Soil Texture Classification with 1D Convolutional Neural Networks based on Hyperspectral Data" at the ISPRS Geospatial Week in Enschede (NL), Code |
| May 2019 | Talk "Satellite Computer Vision mit Keras und TensorFlow - Best Practices und Beispiele aus der Forschung" at the M3 conference in Mannheim (DE), Slides and Code |
| April 2019 | 2-day Workshop about "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensing" at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina in Lima (PE) |
| March 2019 | Poster about "Land use classification with remote sensing data and machine learning in the Lima region (Peru)" at the Tag der Hydrologie 2019 (engl. Hydrology Day) in Karlsruhe (DE) |
| February 2019 | Poster about "Land use classification with remote sensing data and machine learning in the Lima region (Peru)" at the GRoW Midterm Conference in Frankfurt am Main (DE) |
| October 2018 | Talk "Satellite data is for everyone: Insights into modern remote sensing research with open data and Python" at the PyCon.DE 2018 in Karlsruhe (DE), Slides and Code and Video of the talk |
| October 2018 | Talk about the publication "Developing a machine learning framework for estimating soil moisture with VNIR hyperspectral data" at the ISPRS TCI Symposium 2018 in Karlsruhe (DE) |
| September 2018 | Talk about the publication "Fusion of hyperspectral and ground penetrating radar to estimate soil moisture" at the WHISPERS 2018 conference in Amsterdam (NL) |
| July 2018 | Talk about the publication "Introducing a Framework of Self-Organizing Maps for Regression of Soil Moisture with Hyperspectral Data" at the IGARSS 2018 conference in Valencia (ES) |
| July 2018 | Poster about "Self-organizing maps for regression with hyperspectral data" at VISUM summer school in Porto (PT) |
| March 2018 | Talk about the publication "Modeling Subsurface Soil Moisture Based on Hyperspectral Data - First Results of a Multilateral Field Campaign" at the DGPF conference in Munich (DE) |
Media and Press
- SWR2 Impuls radio interview about "Artificial Intelligence - Search for drinking water with satellites and AI" with Sina Keller
- Press release by the KIT SEK with the title "From satellite image towards drinking water concepts" about the Peru measurement campaign and the contribution of the IPF in the TRUST project
- Youtube video with the title "Artificial Intelligence in Environmental Research" about my PhD and the contribution of the IPF in the TRUST project (TV broadcast in RegioTV and BadenTV)
- Podcast episode about "Remote Sensing with Multispectral Remote Sensing" of TechTiefen with Nico Kreiling in July 2019
- Youtube video of the talk "Satellite data is for everyone: Insights into modern remote sensing research with open data and Python" at PyCon.DE in October 2018
