Generative Adversarial Network Experts in Germany

• Fine-tuned and evaluated alternative backbone architectures for the AFFGAN handwriting style encoder to better capture writer-specific features, benchmarking against the original baseline architecture and replacing the legacy VGG19 architecture with a custom Transformer-based encoder.
• Extended the system beyond word-level synthesis to line-level handwriting generation, integrating and adapting an existing line-generation architecture to support full-sentence output.
• Deployed the handwriting generation pipeline as a web application, enabling users to select a writing style, input custom text, and instantly generate a corresponding handwriting image.
• Integrated TrOCR into a teacher–student distillation framework to evaluate and improve readability of generated handwriting, improving OCR accuracy by 20% over the baseline.
• Boosted user-study pick-rates by 40%, demonstrating a significant leap in the perceptual quality and realism of the generated handwriting compared to the baseline model.

Tech: PyTorch, Python, GANs, CNN, ViT, TrOCR, Streamlit, CUDA.

• Developed end-to-end reproducible ML pipelines (PyTorch) with data versioning (DVC), experiment tracking (MLflow), automated testing (PyTest), and CI/CD across all training workflows.
• Scaled Vision Transformer and CNN training across NVIDIA A100 GPU clusters (CUDA, DDP, SLURM); applied hyperparameter optimization (W&B Sweeps) to reduce training overhead and identify optimal configurations.
• Developed a real-time 3D human motion generation system (ViT, VQ-VAE, SMPL-X/PIXIE) for personality-conditioned avatar synthesis; achieved state-of-the-art FID = 6.15 and P-FID = 10.31 on the UDIVA benchmark.
• Validated model expressiveness through structured user studies, achieving 86% accuracy in distinguishing extroverted vs. introverted avatar behaviors.
• Optimized inference pipelines by deploying PyTorch models via TensorRT and ONNX Runtime into native C++ code; benchmarked performance.

• Developing methods for monocular 3D facial reconstruction and personalized geometric modelling from mobile imagery
• Building learning-based approaches for facial shape estimation, video-based facial analysis, and privacy-preserving visual learning

• Delivered 40+ AI projects and 23 strategic consultations for international clients (US, Europe, Middle East), achieving a 98% job success rate and building long-term partnerships.
• Developed and deployed production-grade AI solutions in computer vision, NLP, deep learning, and generative AI (LLMs, RAG pipelines, Stable Diffusion, OCR, chatbots), enabling automation and improving client efficiency by up to 70%.
• Designed and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs), including prompt engineering and integration with enterprise knowledge bases, leading to smarter decision-making and reduced manual effort.
• Built real-time computer vision applications (detection, segmentation, OCR) and integrated them into business systems, significantly enhancing accuracy and scalability.
• Consulted startups and enterprises on AI strategy, architecture, and deployment (cloud & on-premise), accelerating product development and reducing time-to-market.
• Managed complete AI project lifecycles (requirements gathering, solution design, deployment, support) in agile, international, and cross-functional environments, ensuring high-quality delivery.

• Independently initiated and deployed automated validation workflows using Python, cutting manual processing by 58% and improving efficiency
• Developed a machine learning model for synthetic defect generation, reducing downtime and production costs; deployed locally and via Databricks and Azure AI Factory
• Utilized a small dataset of image data from the production lines and extended this dataset with training on models like cycleGAN and pix2pix
• Built and optimized the Linux-based development environment for training 3D models; maintained reproducibility via GitHub
• Presented technical insights to cross-functional teams (engineers, QA, project managers), ensuring alignment of ML solutions with operational needs

• Generated synthetic datasets for CXR, mammography, and distal radius fracture detection using GANs and diffusion, creating >50k synthetic images for benchmarking.
• Ensured GDPR-compliant workflows and reproducibility, enabling dataset adoption for internal validation and academic collaboration.
• Project highlighted in MedTank’s internal R&D showcase as a flagship synthetic data initiative.

• Developed a Python-based synthetic data generation pipeline in Blender to simulate complex human-forklift interactions for robotic perception and AI model training.
• Designed and modeled 3D industrial digital twins to support depth estimation, stereo vision, and safety analysis workflows.
• Collected and processed LiDAR, laser, and photogrammetry point clouds to generate accurate 3D maps for environment reconstruction and ground-truth data creation.
• Developed and deployed YOLOv8-based pose estimation and depth perception algorithms using PyTorch and OpenCV, optimized for GPU clusters and NVIDIA Jetson platforms.
• Integrated and validated AI modules in ROS-based robotic environments, ensuring real-time performance and interoperability.

• Developed the iOS/Android Delegate App and the Conference Operator
• Updated and developed a user-friendly conference environment and real-time video streaming
• Optimized the overall conference experience by implementing customizable features for flexible setup
• Enhanced the efficiency and usability of conference technology, enabling a seamless workflow and improved participant interaction experience

• Head of overall technical integration NSC (National Secure Cloud, project with approx. 60 employees).

• Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces and basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG platform.

• Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) capable of creating private/mixed clouds of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.

• CMP also includes the complete hardware management lifecycle.

• Kubernetes, OpenStack and Hadoop are used as the foundation.

• The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are configured automatically.

• Private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop layer with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 additional ML/DL technologies.

• Hadoop worker clusters can also be installed automatically without Kubernetes on bare metal or commodity hardware.

• OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.

• Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, DB.

• Technologies: Kubernetes (K3s, Rke2, Minikube, Harbor, Gitea, Jenkins, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher), OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Swift, Ceph, Cinder, Sahara, Magnum, Kayobe, Kolla, Bigrost, Ironic), Hadoop (HDFS, Ambari, Solr, Livy, Ranger, YARN, Tez, HBase, Kafka, Hive, Zookeeper, MapReduce, Spark, Oozie, Flink), virtualization (Kubernetes (K3S), VMware, Oracle), scripting (Ansible, Puppet, Juju, Shell, Groovy, Gradle, Maven).

• Developed ASR and TSR-based speech processing pipelines on AWS, enabling efficient feature extraction and scalable deployment for speech and text analytics.
• Built a Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition system combining NLP and deep learning (audio + text), achieving 98% accuracy and supporting real-time, cloud-based inference.
• Designed and optimized end-to-end model training and evaluation workflows using AWS services (S3, EC2, Lambda) to ensure performance, reliability, and reproducibility.
• Created and deployed interactive, user-friendly dashboards for data visualization and insight generation, supporting research teams and management in data-driven decision-making.

• Designed and deployed end-to-end ML pipelines using Python and SQL for multimodal data processing and predictive modelling.
• Built cloud-ready ML systems integrating heterogeneous data sources with scalable data engineering practices.
• Partnered with product and business teams to define high-impact ML use cases and guide technical execution from prototype to deployment.
• Introduced architecture patterns and documentation frameworks supporting model governance, lifecycle traceability, and audits.
• Mentored 4+ engineers on ML workflows, and model deployment.

• Designed and implemented a real-time perception pipeline using YOLOv7 on Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor data, enabling live streaming, inference, and on-frame visualization for passenger detection.
• Fine-tuned and evaluated multiple state-of-the-art monocular depth estimation models for Automatic Passenger Counting (APC), and developed a custom hybrid depth model that improved depth accuracy in challenging scene regions.
• Demonstrated that model-generated depth maps outperform raw sensor depth for APC tasks across several datasets, contributing to measurable reductions in counting error.

• Building the company with a focus on connectivity for IIoT and Industry 4.0, iRPA/process automation, advanced robotics and smart systems, sensors and services
• Project management and software architecture for IoT gateway development (since 2020) with protocol translation, IT/OT convergence and GRC
• Developing RPA bots for automating and monitoring industrial processes with an agent-based AI approach (since 2020)
• Implementing unsupervised clustering and anomaly detection for time series data in big data streaming pipelines (since 2021)
• Introducing a Docker-based release train for OTA updates with DevSecOps and CI/CD (since 2018)

• Investigating the equivalence between the Tiny Reasoning Model (TRM) and diffusion models for structured reasoning tasks such as Sudoku and maze solving.
• Exploring the reasoning and generative capabilities of diffusion models in symbolic problem-solving environments.