Christoph Stenkamp
Cologne
(DE)
Education
University of Osnabrueck
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GPA: 1.1
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Focus Topics: Neuroinformatics, Computational Linguistics.
University of Osnabrueck
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GPA: 1.0
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Focus Topics: Neuroinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Computational Linguistics.
Horicon High School, Horicon WI 53032, USA
2010
High School Semester abroad
Gymnasium Mariengarden, Borken-Burlo, Germany
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Higher Education Entrance Qualification (Abitur)
Grade (NC): 1.5
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Main Courses: Mathematics, English, Computer Science, Philosophy.
Member of the Maths Club, Homepage Club and Spanish Club.
Vocational Experience
Self-Employment (Kleingewerbe), Cologne, Germany
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Creative Technologist
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• Design and implementation of self-initiated and commissioned interactive installations and light objects (electronics, sensors, LED control, microcontrollers, network communication)
• Technical realization and on-site support for art and festival projects (setup, lighting, control systems)
• Development and production of small series and custom-built objects (3D printing, CAD design, electronics)
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Software Technology, Cologne, Germany
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As PhD Candidate in the group Intelligent Software Systems in the department for Intelligent and Distributed Systems, my research topic was Large Language Models for (Research) Software Engineering. For my main project in the year I worked there, I created a dataset of scientific papers along with their respective source code repository, and trained a Graph Neural Network ontop of the embeddings of paper and code in order to find the one from the other.
VisioLab GmbH, Osnabrück, Germany
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VisioLab creates automated self-checkout registers for canteens, automatically recognizing the food via an iPad. In typical startup fashion, I worked on many things, such as creating, maintaining and adding features to the backend (Firebase, Typescript), upkeep and deployment of the infarstructure (Kubernetes, Terraform), creating ETL-Pipelines, a Data Warehouse and a dashboard, as well as improving the custom food classification models as a data scientist.
Siddata Project, virtUOS, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrück, Germany
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The Siddata-Project created a digital data-driven study assistant, available in Stud.IP via a Django backend. In this job, I worked on ML models to suggest courses and other content, as well as professionalizing the backend to be containerized and thus quickly deployed and scaled with a proper CI/CD Pipeline.
University of Osnabrueck / Red Hen Lab, Osnabrück, Germany
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Working on a pipeline that automatically detects hand gestures in large datasets of videos. For this, a complex pipeline involving OpenPose for Pose Recognition as well as Person tracking and detection and many other steps was developed and maintained, as well as deployed on a HPC using Singularity.
University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrück, Germany
2018, 2019, 2020
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For three years, I held an interactive lecture about scientific programming to 100-130 participants each. It revolves around advanced python as well as the packages for data processing and ‑visualization as well as the creation and analysis of experiments.
inserve GmbH, Hannover, Germany
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Productive Realization of Machine Learning Tools for a Pipeline that automatically processes complex documents and data inventories in the legal domain.
University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrück
2017
Student research assistant
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Creating Datasets and full Python-Code for two linguistic studies, as well as recruting subjects and conducting the experiments and helping to analyze the results.
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
2015
Internship at HuRoBs-Lab
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Among others: testing the feasability of controlling grasping movements of a prosthetic hand via a 14-channel-EEG placed on Motor Cortex. Duration: four months.
Honorary Offices and Academic Self Government
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck
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Member of the Examination Board (Prüfungskommission)
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Council ensuring that examinations are carried out properly, according to the respective university regulations. Member for 2 legislative periods.
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck
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Member of the Study Commission (Studienkommission)
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Council deciding over changes in the study regulations as well as responsible for approval of courses. Member for 3 legislative periods.
Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck
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Student Body Member
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Organization of several events over several years, mainly responsible for example our bi-annual weekend trip to Burg Lohra with around 200 students for six times. Further organized events include christmas parties, freshmen-week, being a freshman-tutor and others. Elected president of the student body (Fachschaftsrat) in 2020 for one legislative period.
Programming Languages and Computer Skills
Python, Java; NumPy/pandas/scikit-learn; Django; Keras/TensorFlow/PyTorch; packaging (pip/Conda/Poetry, Maven); linting/testing/docs; Docker/CI/CD; Kubernetes/Slurm/SGE.
LLMs, embeddings, GNNs, applied research.
Cloud/Firebase, Docker, Terraform, Airflow/Argo, BigQuery/SQL.
Unix/Bash; C/C++; TypeScript/JavaScript; LaTeX/HTML/MS Office/CSS.
Embedded/electronics: ESP32/Arduino; TouchDesigner; DMX/Art-Net/OSC.
Natural Languages
German
| Fluent Reading, Writing and Speaking | Mother tongue |
English
| Fluent Reading, Writing and Speaking | English Bachelor/Master and Jobs |
Spanish
| Intermediate | B1 Certificate |
Latin
| Latin proficiency certificate |