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Name Kilian Merkelbach
Label Applied Researcher
Email merkelbachkilian@gmail.com
Summary Experienced Research Scientist with a strong background in machine learning and natural language processing. Proven track record of applying advanced AI techniques to real-world problems and delivering production solutions.

Work

  • 2023 - Present
    Applied Researcher
    eBay Inc.
    Developing and prototyping production solutions for natural language understanding and NLP at scale.
  • 2018 - 2018
    Research Scientist
    Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
    Research on applications of AI and prototyped an intelligent mobile radio network using reinforcement learning. Prototyped an intelligent mobile radio network using reinforcement learning in PyTorch.
  • 2016 - 2018
    Student Assistant
    RWTH Aachen, Computer Vision Group
    Research on multiple object tracking.
  • 2015 - 2016
    Intern
    eBay Inc., HLT Group
    Implemented a distributed automatic web-based machine translation system and researched neural machine translation.

Education

  • 2018 - 2023
    PhD (Dr. rer. nat.)
    RWTH Aachen
    Computer Science
    • Machine learning for dimensionality reduction of complex and irregular temporal data using TensorFlow
  • 2014 - 2018
    Master of Science
    RWTH Aachen
    Computer Science
    • Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    • Thesis on a computer vision system for generic object tracking of multiple traffic participants in the context of autonomous driving
  • 2011 - 2014
    Bachelor of Science
    RWTH Aachen
    Computer Science
    • Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining

Skills

Programming Languages
Python
Java
Bash
C++
C#
Frameworks & Libraries
Tensorflow
Pandas
PyTorch
NumPy
SciPy
Scikit-learn
Tools & Software
git
LaTeX
Microsoft Office

Languages

German
Native
English
Fluent