Hi, thanks for stopping by! I am currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology while being employed at SAP. In this blog I write about my journey, from the beginning of my prior attempt at Uni Bonn up until now. If you’re interested in the full story, I recommend to read the oldest post first.
After the last blog post (which again is a long time ago) I wanted to proudly present my first accepted paper with the upcoming blog post. Instead, my submission at ICLR ’24 has been officially rejected and I might not be able to fully address all valid points of criticism put forth by the reviewers… A few months ago, I have applied for this year’s Reinforcement Learning Summer School in Barcelona and got rejected. More precisely, I was placed on a “waiting list” which given the popularity of the event I interpreted as a rejection, and moved on. Then, about three weeks before the start of that summer school, the… It’s been a long time since the last blog post, but nothing ground-breaking has (yet) happened, so here’s just a minor update. On my second try, I’ve actually survived the first year of PhD! Jokes aside, I’m actually having a lot of fun. After my lengthy prologue that included reading into the computer networks domain,… The AI cosmos these days seems like a very curious place to be: The funding hype of the past years has sobered somewhat, and companies and start-ups can’t just walk around anymore and collect venture capital for their gimmicky AI-powered app without showing the economic benefit in cold, hard numbers. Nevertheless, AI still feels like… It is the start of month seven of my industry PhD position. The past six months amount to a sixth of my contract’s regular duration, which if voiced this way seems like a lot of time already. If I had to briefly summarize the results of the first six months for people outside the domain… The previous post has dealt with the old – more precisely the end of my first PhD attempt and what has resulted from it. This post deals with the new – my second PhD attempt, how I got this chance and what it will bring for me. After I mustered up the courage to quit… It has been a long time since I published my last PhD Life blog post. The reason is that I have quit my PhD position in Bonn because I did not enjoy that position at all, and neither did I enjoy my life there. Instead I have started a second PhD attempt at SAP SE,… Beware: Resource Links point to media pages written in German. Sorry for the language barrier! There are a lot of PhD students in Germany (roughly 150k in 2017), and with over 1% of the population in Germany holding a PhD degree in 2019, opinions are voiced that these numbers might too high to be justified,… Before actually reporting from the life of a PhD student, I feel like it’d be nice to talk about why I chose to continue “studying”. After all, having studied for more than 13 semesters, it might be about time to follow the advice of some of my relatives and start working “properly” to finally make… On June 1st 2021 I’ve started out as a PhD Student at the Institute of Autonomous Intelligent Systems at the University of Bonn, and I’ve decided that I’d like to write down my impressions during the begun journey. Well, technically I’m not considered even a PhD student until I’ve submitted an official exposé, presented my…Riders on the Storm
Going Places
Year 2
Ordinary AI Researchers in the Age of Social Media and Hype
Half a Year in the Dark
Immersed in the Dark Side
Retreat, Reflect, Recharge, Retry
Fitting a PhD into the life plan
Why am I doing a PhD?
My Life as a PhD Student