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PhD Candidate

University Hospital Bonn

PhD research on attention-based analysis of high-resolution ophthalmic images and videos in the Working Group Wintergerst, focusing on smartphone-assisted Diabetic Retinopathy detection and Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS) analysis.

Researcher

Clinical Epidemiology & Medical Technology Assessment (KEMTA)

Computer Science Tutor

Maastricht University - Faculty of Science and Engineering

Tutor for Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Engineering, Intelligent Systems, Introduction to Programming I & II.

Research Assistant

University Clinic Bonn

Designing and implementing deep learning applications to predict disease (e.g. diabetic retinopathy or peripheral artery disease) from ophthalmic data. Conducting research and publishing paper in collaboration with hospitals in India and Nigeria.

Student Assistant

Fraunhofer Scai

Working in the Bioinformatics research area as software developer for machine learning applied to various biological and medical use-cases.

Student Assistant

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Working with different data tracking and visualizing software projects to handle "Quantified Self" provenance data.

Bachelor Thesis - Development of a Hybrid Cloud Solution

IBM

IBM Storage Solutions: Development of a hybrid cloud setup using the distributed storage cluster software IBM Spectrum Scale in combination with IBM Cloud Object Storage and the cloud platform IBM Bluemix.

Internship as Software Consultant

IBM

Internship at the IBM Chicago Office doing an analysis of mobile and social tool usage

Internship as Front- and Backend Developer for IBM

IBM

Internship in the IBM Healthcare Innovation Team developing a nodejs backend for demo management and migrating a machine learning application to a public cloud infrastructure

Internship as Software Developer for a automated test suite

IBM

Internship at REWE Systems Cologne developing a automated testing suite for android and creating a virtual reality showcase. In the second part of the internship I worked on a cross platform mobile application for market monitoring.

Internship as Webdeveloper for the club "Schach für Kids"

IBM

Producing a website, documentation & strategy for the development of a NodeJS-based web-application that introduces children to the game of Chess. With a two person team we designed a prototype (proof-of-concept) including back- and front-end. The result could be seen @CeBIT2015, displaying a use case of IBM's BlueMix cloud platform. After continued work throughout the following year(s), the web-app is now fully functional and in productive use.

IBM Dual student

IBM

Counselor

Stichting @ease

Paramedic Assistent

German Red Cross

PhD

University of Bonn

Medicine (Ophthalmology) - Learning what is relevant: Attention-based analysis of high-resolution ophthalmic images and videos

Master's degree

Maastricht University

Medicine

Bachelor's degree

Maastricht University

Medicine

Master's degree

The University of Bonn

Bioinformatics

Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc

Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)

Higher Education

Masterarbeitspreis

Bonner Informatik Gesellschaft e.V.

Am 9. Juli 2021 hat die Bonner Informatik Gesellschaft e.V. zum sechsten Mal einen Preis für herausragende Abschlussarbeiten verliehen. Die ausgezeichneten Arbeiten stammten aus den Jahren 2018, 2019 und 2020.

Multiple instance learning detects peripheral arterial disease from high-resolution color fundus photography

Scientific Reports

In this explorative study a deep attention-based Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) architecture is used to capture retinal imaging biomarkers on CFP images of 135 examinations.

Automated Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy from Smartphone Fundus Videos

International Workshop on Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis