CV

General Information

Name Lukas Struppek
Residence Darmstadt, Germany
Languages German, English, Latin, Ancient Greek

Education

  • 2021 - today
    PhD - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab
    Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
    • Research Focus: Security and privacy preserving machine learning
      • Attacking and defending machine learning systems
      • Focus on computer vision applications
  • 2018 - 2020
    Industrial Engineering (M.Sc.)
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
    • Graduation with distinction
    • Overall score: 1.1 (on a scale of 1.0 - 5.0, where 1 is the best grade)
    • Major field of study: Machine learning & AI, statistics, finance
    • Master thesis: "Embedding Convolutional Mixture of Experts into Deep Neural Networks for Computer Vision Tasks", awarded with Faculty Award
  • 2015-2018
    Industrial Engineering (B.Sc.)
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
    • Graduation with distinction
    • Overall score: 1.1 (on a scale of 1.0 - 5.0, where 1 is the best grade)
    • Major field of study: Finance, statistics, software engineering, medical technology
    • Bachelor thesis: "Conception and Realization of a Microservice for Synchronizing User Preferences"
  • 2013-2015
    Industrial Engineering (B.Eng.)
    Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Loerrach, Germany
    • Major field of study: international technical sales management
    • Leaving at request without a degree
  • 2005-2013
    High School Diploma (Abitur)
    Hebel Gymnasium, Loerrach, Germany
    • Overall score: 1.0 (on a scale of 1.0 - 6.0, where 1 is the best grade)
    • Awards for outstanding achievements in economics, physics and ancient languages

Experience

  • 2024 - today
    Research Scientist
    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Darmstadt, Germany
    • Working on foundations of trustworthy AI systems.
  • 2021 - today
    Ph.D. student - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab
    Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
    • Pursuing my PhD
  • 2018 - 2020
    Research Assistant - Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB)
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
    • Supervisor for the courses Introduction to Programming: Java und Advanced Programming - Java Network Programming
    • Supervising 40 tutors and approx. 700 students
    • Creating exams and lecturing as a substitute
    • Supervisor for the seminars Modern Web Development with JavaScript und Robot Programming and Artificial Intelligence with Python
  • 2019
    Intern (Consulting)
    d-fine, Frankfurt, Germany
    • Employment on a change management project for business and IT transformation in a large German financial institution
    • Supporting of the overall project management in strategic planning and control of the project
    • Coordinating a review process of a Bafin application for permission to establish a subsidiary
    • Implementing a classification model for named entity recognition with LSTM networks
  • 2019 - 2021
    Lecturer for Software Engineering
    Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Karlsruhe, Germany
    • Lecturing modern programming concepts in Java for business computer science students
  • 2016 - 2017
    Student Assistant - Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB)
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
    • Tutor for the courses Introduction to Programming: Java and Advanced Programming - Java Network Programming
  • 2016
    Intern (Management)
    Suva (Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund), Basel, Switzerland
    • Intern in the division of management and support processes
    • Creating concepts for prevention of non-work-related accidents in an international context
    • Supporting the development of a cross-company collaboration platform
  • 2013 - 2015
    DHBW Student - Industrial Engineering
    TRUMPF Hüttinger, Freiburg, Germany
    • Bachelor program cooperation company
    • Visiting the following departments: marketing & sales management, strategic and operative purchasing, production planning & fabrication

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Top Reviewer at NeurIPS 2023
  • 2022
    • Faculty Award of KIT Department of Economics and Management
    • Best Paper Award of the Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro) @ IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
  • 2017-2019
    • Deutschlandstipendium (scholarship)
  • 2013
    • School Award for outstanding achievements in the Abitur
    • School Award for Economy, awarded by of the association Südwestmetall e.V.
    • School Award for Physics, awarded by the German Physical Society
    • School Award for Ancient Languages, awarded by the foundation Humanismus Heute

Technical Skills

  • Programming languages and software engineering
    • Python
    • Java
    • Git
    • Docker
  • Frameworks
    • PyTorch
    • Scikit-learn
    • NumPy
    • Pandas
    • Matplotlib
    • Jupyter
  • Operating systems
    • Windows
    • Ubuntu
  • Miscellaneous
    • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio
    • Latex
    • SQL