About Me

Born and raised in Coburg, Germany I relocated to Innsbruck, Austria in 2018 to study and be closer to the mountains.

I'm passionate about professional software development in particular with the latest machine learning technology. After my bachelor's degree in Information Systems, I worked for three years developing an international e-commerce platform. In 2021 I accomplished my Computer Science master's with a focus on the security of deep learning.
I have gathered great experiences on my first big mountain project, the Kilimanjaro, as well as from multiple alpine climbing, paragliding and skiing tours across the alps.

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Career

Swarm Analytics

Machine Learning Engineer • Innsbruck, Austria • 2021 - present

Deep learning models for object detection and classification in the traffic domain

Developing an automatic number plate recognition system based on CNN with 90% accuracy

Security & Privacy Lab

Student Assistant • Innsbruck, Austria • 2019 - 2021

Research on the security of machine learning models

Co-authoring scientific papers published in international conferences and workshops
Supporting university teaching on the computer networking bachelor's lecture

Speed U Up

Software Engineer • Innsbruck, Austria • 2018 - 2019

Developing applications for digital voice assistants

Erlebe Tirol, voice application of the brand Tirol for Alexa & Google Assistant
RelatedToAustria, audio AR city guide iOS App for the Bose Frames, won several awards

REHAU AG + Co

Software Engineer & Consultant • Hof, Germany • 2016 - 2018

Developing & supporting the REHAU customer portal

Full-stack development of a high-availability e-commerce platform on SAP Hybris
International roll-outs of the portal in over 20 countries

Education

University of Innsbruck

M.Sc. in Computer Science • February 2021

Graduated with 1.3 / A
Thesis: "Evaluating the Security of Neural Networks on a Defense Against Adversarial Examples"

Hof University

B.Sc. in Information Systems • December 2015

Graduated with 1.6 / A
Thesis: "Application Performance Management by the Example of the REHAU Customer Portal"

Publications

iNNformant: Boundary Samples as Telltale Watermarks, Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, June 2021
Forensicability of Deep Neural Network Inference Pipelines, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, June 2021
On the Difficulty of Hiding Keys in Neural Networks, Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, June 2020