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