About Me

Greetings! I'm a software engineer and data scientist deeply passionate about creating intelligent code and scaling great heights. My expertise lies in software development, deep learning, and working with large piles of data, specifically in the field of security and privacy.

Armed with a Bachelor's degree in Business Information Systems and a Master's in Computer Science, I I started working in classical software development, contributing to an international e-commerce platform. In 2021, I attained my Master's and delved into vital AI research. My expertise extends to computer vision and training deep neural networks, and I currently apply my skills as a data scientist, tackling critical security and privacy challenges.

When not immersed in the digital world, I find solace and excitement in conquering mountains. From Kilimanjaro to alpine climbing, paragliding, and skiing in the stunning Alps, I'm an adventure enthusiast always seeking new heights.

Let's scale peaks — be they in code or in the great outdoors!

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Career

Good Research

Data Scientist • Berkeley, United States · Remote • 2023 - present

Security and privacy forensics

Swarm Analytics

Deep Learning Engineer • Innsbruck, Austria • 2021 - 2023

Deep learning for object detection, text recognition and classification in traffic domain

Responsible for the deep learning software stack based on PyTorch with multi-GPU training, evaluation & optimization of up to 100 models per month
Developing a CNN-based automatic number plate recognition system with >98% accuracy
Researching & assessing the latest academic methodologies and their product value

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 lecture

REHAU AG + Co

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

Developing a B2B e-commerce web application

Full-stack development of a high-availability e-commerce platform based 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

I'm Tobias Kupek.

a software engineer and outdoor enthusiast based in Innsbruck, Austria.