CV

Professional Activities

Since 01/2015 Lecturer, Computer Science Department, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zürich, Switzerland.
  ETH lead of CTI project Nanopict: compact, cost-effective, high-performance embedded microscopy for diagnosis and research, since 2016
  Lecture Series Parallel Programming (Bachelor, English/German), 2015-2016, System Construction (Master, English), 2015, Computer Science I (Bachelor, German, at Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering), 2014, 2015, and Informatics II (Bachelor, German, at Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering), 2015, 2016.
01/2008 - 12/2014 Researcher and Lecturer (Oberassistent), Computer Systems Institute, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zürich, Switzerland.
  Project lead of project Supercomputer in the Pocket, 2009-2011, and follow-up project Cloud-Assisted Supercomputer in the Pocket, 2012-2014, Microsoft Innovation Cluster for Embedded Systems.
  Academic lead of CTI project StailaOS: Operating System Kernel with Support for High-Performance Financial Transactions, 2009-2011,
  ETH lead of CTI project Oberon On Chip: Custom Processor for Optimized Hardware Integration of a Programming Language, 2008-2009.
  Design and implementation of Hybrid Programming Model and Tool-Chain for High Performance Computing on FPGAs, 2009-2013.
  Design and implementation of Programming Language Support for High-Performance Tensor-based computing, 2008-2012.
  Lecture Series Operating Systems (Bachelor, German), 2008-2009, System Construction (Master, English), 2010-2014, Informatics I (Bachelor, German, at Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering), 2013, and Informatics II (Bachelor, German, at Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering), 2014.
  Seminar on Software Engineering 2010, with J. Gutknecht and L. Liu, ETH Zurich.
11/2005 - 12/2007 Postdoc, Computer Systems Institute, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zürich, Switzerland.
  CTI project A2: Development of a Generic, Programmable Industry PC for Complex Control Tasks in Reliability Critical Applications, Consulting on Concurrency Framework, Real Time Garbage Collection, Implementation of the Compiler Framework, 2007-2009.
  Design and implementation of Programming Language Support for Mathematical Programming, 2005-2008.
  Design and implementation of Algorithms for Active Safety of Planes in General Aviation,2005-2007.
  Lecture Series on Operating Systems (Bachelor, German), 2007.
03/2001 - 05/2006 Researcher, Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany.
  Research on, development and implementation of Very Fast Image Segmentation Algorithms.
  Development of a Simulation Framework for Research and Teaching.
  Research on Model Choice Criteria and Exact Sampling.
  Mathematical modeling in Life Sciences.
04/1999 - 02/2001 Postgraduate, Graduate School ‘Modeling and Scientific Computing in Mathematics and Applied Sciences’, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University Heidelberg, Germany
  Research on model choice criteria and parameter estimation on Markov Fields and image analysis.
10/1994 - 05/1998 Research Assistant, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University Heidelberg, Germany.
  Development and implementation of interactive visualization methods in the field of mathematical statistics.

Education

2005 Dr.rer.nat. (summa cum laude), Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Germany.
Title Complexity Penalized Segmentations in 2D -- Efficient Algorithms and Approximation Properties
1999 Dipl.-Math., Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Title Parameterabhängige Qualität einiger Schätzer für das isotrope Ising-Modell mit nächsten Nachbarn.
  [About the Parameter Dependent Quality of Estimators in the Isotropic Ising Model with a Nearest Neighborhood].
1993 Vordiplom Mathematik, Universität Heidelberg
1992 Vordiplom Physik, Universität Heidelberg

Awards


2006 Award for the doctoral thesis of the "Verein der Freunde und Förderer der GSF und des Genossenschaftsverbandes Bayern e.V." (association of friends and sponsors of the GSF and cooperative society of Bavaria)
2005 PhD with highest honor, Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Germany.