Jakob Richter

Student Research Assistant

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Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Timeline
About me
PhD in Statistics, Research in Machine Learning and Bayesian Optimization
Education
- TU Dortmund
  2009 - 2015
  Master of Science (M.Sc.)
- Technische Universität Dortmund
  2009 - 2015
  Master of Science (M.Sc.) Statistik
Experience
- Institut für Schulentwicklungsforschung (IFS) TU Dortmund
  Jun 2012 - Dec 2012
  Student Research Assistant
  Implemented a system to create automated reports based on current research surveys, that were used in the final publication TIMSS 2011.
- Technische Universität Dortmund
  Nov 2013 - Jun 2021
  Finished my PhD, Research on parallelization for Bayesian optimization, hyperparameter optimization for expensive machine learning problems, and worked on various open source projects for machine learning in R: mlr, mlrMBO, mlrHyperopt. Connected multiple machine learning methods to the R-package mlr.
  - Postdoctoral Researcher
    Sept 2020 - Jun 2021
  - Doctoral Candidate
    May 2015 - Sept 2020
  - Student Research Assistant
    Nov 2013 - Apr 2015
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
  Postdoctoral Researcher
  Research and Teaching on AutoML
- Civey
  Jun 2021 - now
  - Head of Data Science
    Mar 2023 - now
  - Lead R Engineer
    Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
  - Senior R Engineer
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Licenses & Certifications
- Natural Language Processing with Sequence Models
  Coursera
  Sept 2022
  View certificate
- Natural Language Processing with Attention Models
  Coursera
  Oct 2022
  View certificate
- Natural Language Processing with Probabilistic Models
  Coursera
  Sept 2022
  View certificate
- Natural Language Processing with Classification and Vector Spaces
  Coursera
  Sept 2022
  View certificate