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Dustin Theobald

Machine Learning Engineer

Education

10.2021 - 12.2023
M.Sc. Machine Learning
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Majors: Probabilistic & Statistical Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Explainable AI
Final grade: 1.8
Thesis: Are interpretable models better than post-hoc explanation methods in detecting shortcut learning?

10.2018 - 04.2021
B.Sc. Applied Data Science
Georg August University of Göttingen

Majors: Data Analysis, Data Infrastructures
Final grade: 1.5
Thesis: Self-Supervised Learning

02.2017 - 08.2017
M.Sc. Economics
Macquarie University, Sydney

Semester Abroad

10.2016 - 04.2018
M.Sc. Economics
Leibniz University Hannover

Major: Finance
Final grade: 1.5
Thesis: Liquidity and Volatility Spillovers between U.S. Treasuries and Equities

09.2014 - 02.2015
B.Sc. Economics
University of Economics, Bratislava

Semester Abroad

10.2012 - 07.2016
B.Sc. Economics
Leibniz University Hannover

Majors: Money and international Finance, Banking and Finance, Insurance
Final grade: 2.0
Thesis: To the use of Technical Analysis

Work Experience

09.2019 - 11.2019
Internship Data Science
IBM, Vienna

Various tasks, including business analytics, optical character and image recognition with focus on the software tesseract by improving current language models as well as building classification algorithms to detect a badly performed conversion.

Back-End Data Science OCR AI
02.2019 - 04.2019
Internship Business Intelligence
FlyNex GmbH, Leipzig

Finding business intelligence solutions by creating, combining and analysing multiple data sources utilizing SQL, JS and Python – Technical Project Manager.

Data Science BI Power BI Scrum
12.2017 - 03.2018
Student Assistant
Leibniz University Hannover - Institute of Banking and Finance

Assistant on various research projects by reviewing the relevant literature, assessing multiple data sources and empirical data analysis.

Research Databases
06.2012 - 10.2012
Part-Time Employment
Incendium Culina GmbH, Hannover

Management Assistant with focus on creating documents, contracts and settlements as well as various administrative and organisational responsibilities.

Management Assistant

Additional Qualifications

Webdevlopment

Experience with Django
Javascript, HTML & CSS

Programming

Basics: Java, C, Haskell, Assembly
Advanced: Python
(including NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch)

Computer Skills

MS Office Applications: Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Statistical Software (R - basics)
Git Version Control
Latex

Linguistic Proficiency

German (native language)
English (business fluent - TOEFL 108)

Other

Experience in Agile Software Development - Scrum

Portfolio

2021
Incendium Culina GmbH: E-Commerce Shop

E-Commerce shop using Django. Utilizing Google Maps API, Sendgrid API and PayPal API.

Full Stack Django PostgreSQL Design
2021
Modified CycleGAN

Implementation of the original CycleGAN for Image-to-Image translations. Number of modifications (Gram-Matrix, Feature Loss, Network-Architecture) to be able to make the algorithm work on high structural differences between the images (with moderate success).

Deep Learning AI Image Transformation ConvolutionalNetwork
2021
Self-Supervised Learning: SimCLR Algorithm

Implementation of the SimCLR Algorithm by Chen et al. (2020) + slight modification: AVGSimCLR.

Deep Learning Self-Supervised Learning ConvolutionalNetwork AI
2020
Incendium Culina GmbH: E-Commerce Shop

E-Commerce shop using WordPress. Utilizing WooCommerce and WooFood. (Outdated -> new Website using Django (see above))

Full Stack WordPress WooCommerce WooFood Design
2020
Incendium Culina GmbH: Website

Simple WordPress-Website. Design via Divi-Builder.

WordPress Divi-Editor Design