Background

Education

• Since 2023: PhD
  • Computer Linguistics
  • University of Duesseldorf
  • Supervisor: Oliver Hellwig, Kurt Keutzer
• 2017-2020: Master of Arts
  • Buddhist Studies
  • University of Hamburg
  • Title: “The Fourth Chapter of the Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā: Critical Edition of the Sanskrit/Tibetan and Partial English Translation”
  • Supervisor: Harunaga Isaacson, Martin Delhey
• 2012-2017: Bachelor of Arts
  • Indology as major and Sinology as minor
  • University of Hamburg
  • Title: “Two Commentaries on Vasubandhu’s Triṃśikā: A comparative analaysis of Sthiramati’s and Xuanzang’s exegesis”
  • Supervisor: Michael Zimmermann

Research and work experience

• Since 2023: CTO of the MITRA project under guidance of Kurt Keutzer at Berkeley AI Research Lab (BAIR), UC Berkeley
• 2021-2023: Machine learning infrastructure for the project “ChronBMM: Bayesian Mixture Models für die Datierung von Textkorpora” at the University of Duesseldorf
• Since 2018: Chief developer of the BuddhaNexus platform