Experience

  1. Founder

    Event Vision Research LLC
    Independent research and consulting related to event based cameras, computer vision, visual-inertial odometry, and robotics.
  2. Independent Researcher

    Independent research related to event based cameras, computer vision, visual-inertial odometry, and robotics.
  3. Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Scholar

    University of Pennsyvlania Engineering / GRASP Laboratory
    Worked as a researcher and developer on several projects related to autonomous drone flight, computer vision, machine learning, visual-inertial odometry, and camera calibration.
  4. Founder and Managing Partner

    Black Forest Trading LLC
    Researched high frequency financial trading strategies, managed day-to-day trading operations, wrote software for fully automated electronic trading of equities and futures. Ran a company with 3 employees, including fun stuff like accounting, taxes, contract negotiations etc.
  5. Electronic Market Making Researcher

    UBS
    Developed short term trading strategies and lead team of 2-4 researchers.
  6. Senior Developer, Program Trading

    Bank of America Securities
    Wrote C++ and Java software for BofA’s Program Trading desk.
  7. Member of Techincal Staff III and IV

    Sun Microsystems
    Wrote C/C++ software for MPI high performance message passing library and kernel remote shared memory driver.

Education

  1. PhD Physics

    UC Berkeley
    Thesis on Electronic Structure and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shfit of Solids and Surfaces. Supervised by Prof. Steven Louie.
    Read Thesis
  2. MS Computer Science

    UC Berkeley
    Parallel implementation of 3d fast fourier transforms.
  3. Diploma Physics

    Universitaet Stuttgart
    Masters degree equivalent in Physics.
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
C++
Python
Machine Learning
Hobbies
Flying model airplanes and helicopters
Playing the guitar
Awards
Stipend from the German National Merit Foundation
German National Merit Foundation ∙ September 1988
Merit-based 5-year stipend awarded to top 1% of students
Languages
100%
English
100%
German