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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanien, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika

• Managed the software engineering craft for Reality Lab’s Codec Avatars pillar (30 SWEs) with focus on the scaling of internal VR-calling app incl. WebRTC, React VR, and unity integration.
• Built QA team and automated testing procedures to improve SW-robustness. The team removed >95% of app execution failures during built and runtime.
• Developed a Meta-internal app for joining 3rd party VC applications within VR headsets as a photorealistic Codec Avatar, demonstrating the use case laptop replacement for VR.
• Established community within SW engineering and improved Better Engineering practices such as automated code analysis, HW-in loop testing, QA testing.

Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland

• Served as the site lead for MBition's satellite hub in Sindelfingen and successfully merged the local team into the Mercedes AG, forming a cross-company team.
• Managed the ADAS Adaptive AUTOSAR Basic SW of the Mercedes Benz Operating System MB.OS.
• Oversaw SW Integration of Daimler’s next generation L4 ADAS Operating System.

Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland

- Delivery of the ADAS SW stack at MBition Sindelfingen.

Karlsruhe

• Led the development of the driver assistance feature roadmap in a new business unit.
• Built and led engineering teams across regions (Asia, Europe, U.S.) totaling 40 engineers.
• Developed EV-Level2+ prototype in collaboration with large German OEM.
• Managed Product Owner Teams with full V-Cycle responsibility for feature product dev.
• Automated CI/CD-pipeline for feature development with virtual twins, KPIs, and DevOps.
• Recovered research and proof of concept projects of $1.5M budget inflow.

Sindelfingen

• Responsible for roll-out of the driver assistance system towards the vehicle classes A,B, GLE
• Conception and delivery of productive cloud back end service for in-car ADAS functionalities
• Product Owner for map and sensor fusion development in production driver assistance system
• Project lead for the first AV-licensed standard production vehicle (E-class) in Nevada

Sindelfingen

• Strategy and roadmap coordination of strategic technology field driver assistance and safety
• Coordinating project reviews in driver assistance and safety

Stuttgart Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• teaching the Computer Vision course in the international Master's program
• supervising various Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD degrees

Böblingen

• PhD in optical flow and scene flow from in-vehicle cameras (nominated for German future prize)
• Sensor fusion and path planning for the highway pilot project (awarded Daimler future prize)
• More than 30 scientific publications, above 3.300 referred citations (h-index of 19).
• Project lead for public funded project in Car2x safety applications Ko-PER

Dr. Rer. Nat., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Awarded the dissertation price from the Association to Promote Research Transfer (GFFT Förderpreis)

Mathematics And Computer Science

Master'S Degree, Informatik

Activities and Societies: Awarded the DAGM-SMI price for young academics

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematik

Bachelor'S Degree, Informatik

Education record

Education record