Meet the people working at AIM
E-mail: hh[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Phone: +49 241 80 21451
Holger H. Hoos holds an Alexander von Humboldt professorship in AI at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), as well as a professorship in machine learning at Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands) and an adjunct professorship in computer science at the University of British Columbia (Canada).
E-mail: secret[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Phone: +49 241 80-21452
Kim is doing the administrative stuff.
E-mail: sysman[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Willi keeps our systems running.
E-mail: franke[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Katharina works at RWTH as a research network coordinator. She studied English and History at RWTH Aachen University and started working for the local newspaper as a freelancer during her BA studies. After her studies, she did a journalistic traineeship at the press office of the city of Aachen. She has been working as an editor ever since.
E-mail: vatolkin[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Igor has received a diploma degree in Computer Science and Music as a secondary subject in 2007 and a PhD degree in 2013, both from the TU Dortmund University.
E-mail: kalkreuth[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Roman has received a Master's Degree in Computer Vision and Computational Intelligence in 2012 from South Westphalia University of Applied Science and a PhD degree in 2021 from TU Dortmund University.
E-mail: anastacio[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Marie received a Computer Science engineering degree from the Technology University of Belfort-Montbéliard (France) in 2012.
E-mail: jankovic[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Anja obtained her PhD in Computer Science from LIP6, Sorbonne University (France) in December 2021, under the supervision of Dr.-Ing. Carola Doerr.
E-mail: dettmer[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Justin received his Master’s degree in applied computer science from Ruhr University Bochum in 2023.
E-mail: dierkes[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Julian completed his Master's degree in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) in 2022, specializing in Machine Learning.
E-mail: duwe[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Henning received a bachelor's degree in "Industrial Engineering and Management" from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Goettingen (Germany) in 2021 and finished his Master's degree in the same field at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2023.
E-mail: kaulen[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Konstantin received a Master's degree in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) in 2024.
E-mail: kocher[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Nick completed his master’s degree in computer science at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) in 2023 with a focus on High-Performance Computing.
E-mail: muenz[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Anna finished her Master's degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), specialising in the field of optimisation.
E-mail: shavit[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Hadar completed his Master's degree in Computer Science at Leiden University (the Netherlands) in 2023.
E-mail: skaf[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Wadie earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, majoring in Software Engineering, from Latakia University (formerly, Tishreen University) in 2018.
E-mail: snelleman[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Thijs completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree In Computer Science at Leiden University (Netherlands) in 2022, specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He now works as Research Programmer and PhD candidate at the chair.
E-mail: wolter[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Maria-Lenka completed her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) in 2025 with a focus on Machine Learning Systems and Railway Engineering.
E-mail: emir[dot]pisirici[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Emir is a Computer Science student at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, where he focuses on Artificial Intelligence and its practical applications.
E-mail: tim[dot]luther[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Tim holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University and is now working on his master’s thesis at AIM. He focuses on examining the influence of environment properties on hyperparameter sensitivity in the context of Reinforcement Learning. In his free time, he enjoys playing Tennis.
E-mail: hendrik[dot]baacke[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Hendrik earned his bachelor's degree in Data Science and AI from Maastricht University and is currently working on his master's thesis at AIM and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science.
E-mail: sarp[dot]yasin[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Sarp is doing his bachelors in computer engineering at RWTH and is deeply fascinated by ai and robotics. He enjoys playing the piano and climbing in his free time . His motto is ostinato rigore.
E-mail: malte[dot]schroedl[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Malte works on the LLM Teaching project, where he hopes to utilize LLMs as personalized tutors at RWTH. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Data Science and has a background in Mathematics.
E-mail: abel[dot]ilyes-kun[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Ábel is a computer science graduate from RWTH Aachen University. For his thesis, he is exploring real-time human–AI musical interaction on a Yamaha Disklavier.
E-mail: gereon[dot]geuchen[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Gereon holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University and is now working as a student assistant at AIM. His work focuses on design and development of methodology for dynamic algorithm selection in black-box optimisation.
E-mail: yitong[dot]guo[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Aser is currently pursuing his bachelor’s thesis at AIM. He focuses on using AI to classify classical guitar difficulty.
E-mail: aryamaan[dot]basuroy[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Aryamaan is pursuing a master's degree at RWTH Aachen University and working on a thesis at AIM. The research focuses on developing a conformalised augmentation selection method for contrastive-based time series representation learning.
E-mail: eric[dot]ciucanu[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Eric has obtained Computer Engineering Bachelor Degree in Romania at “Gheorghe Asachi” TU, Iasi and is very eager to meet new people and learn new stuff.
E-mail: feiyu[dot]wang[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Feiyu received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. She is currently working on her master’s thesis at AIM, where she investigates generative audio models for transforming a single singer’s recording into realistic multi-voice choir performances.
E-mail: stepan[dot]izvolskii[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Stepan is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University and works as a student assistant at AIM. His work focuses on automated machine learning for time series representation learning.
People that worked at AIM in the past. Thanks for your commitment!
E-mail: bossek[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Jakob received his bachelor degree in Statistics and diploma in Computer Science from the TU Dortmund University (Germany) in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
E-mail: secret[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Andrea was doing the administrative stuff.
E-mail: ruppe[at]aim[dot]rwth-aachen[dot]de
As participant in the Erasmus+ exchange program years ago, Maddy moved from her native Normandy (France) to Aachen, which soon became her adopted city. Thanks to her work at the International Office of RWTH Aachen University, she discovered her passion for event management and international cooperation, which she will put to good use at the Chair for AI Methodology (AIM). In her free time, Maddy learns to play bass guitar, reads scandinavian thrillers and regularly attends cultural events.
E-mail: tilman[dot]hoffbauer[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Tilman works on the group’s new compute cluster, Kathleen.
E-mail: noah[dot]peil[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Noah is a master student currently working on Sparkle.
E-mail: marcel[dot]baumann[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Marcel received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Oldenburg in 2021.
E-mail: robin[dot]trautmann[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Robin is currently studying electrical engineering and information technology at RWTH Aachen University and takes care of the chair’s 3D printer.
E-mail: aylin[dot]oezek[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Aylin completed her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University and is currently studying Master in Data Science at RWTH. She plays the piano for more than 10 years.
E-mail: polina[dot]kozarovitskaya[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Polina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, where she completed her thesis on hyperparameter optimization in neural networks and subsequently published a paper on the topic. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Data Science at RWTH Aachen University, specializing in machine learning.
E-mail: andreas[dot]romann[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Andreas works on AI in music for the chair. His thesis topic is hierarchical instrument recognistion.
E-mail: elliot[dot]johnson[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Elliot is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree at RWTH Aachen University and working on a thesis at AIM. The research focuses on exploring the relationships between window size and other hyperparameters in deep learning-based time series forecasting models, aiming to develop more efficient strategies to search for the optimal window size without exhaustive trial-and-error.
E-mail: brian[dot]schiller[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Brian is currently working on his Master at RWTH and is working on Sparkle and the Algorithm Selection Framework.
E-mail: erfan[dot]moeini[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Erfan Moeini is a pursuing a Master’s degree at RWTH Aachen University. He focuses on meta learning for time-series data and works in collaboration with Volkswagen AG.
E-mail: leon[dot]kamke[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
He does scheduling for satellite quantum key distribution
E-mail: amelie[dot]dittmann[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Amelie Dittmann is working on her master’s thesis at AIM. She focuses on applying neural network verification in the medical domain.
E-mail: tim[dot]schaetz[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Tim is doing his master’s thesis at AIM. He focuses on investigating loss functions for robust decision-focused learning.
E-mail: max[dot]van[dot]gemmeren[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Max earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, where he developed a self-supervised learning pipeline for point cloud data derived from RGB-D videos as part of his thesis. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and is contributing to the development of Sparkle.
E-mail: janek[dot]paessens[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Janek is doing his Masters thesis at AIM. He focuses on analyzing the trade-offs between hardware-parameters, such as CPU frequency scaling or multi-threading, and energy to create a framework for resource-aware optimization and subsequent ensembling.
E-mail: n[dot]bach[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Nico Bach is working on his master’s thesis at AIM and at UC Berkeley. In his project, he investigates how to improve volumetric 3D-printing techniques with Neural Networks.
E-mail: h[dot]chang[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Hsiang-Lin Chang is working on his master’s thesis at AIM and in his project, he investigates how semi-structured pruning effects the local robustness of neural networks.
E-mail: tim[dot]hauptreif[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Tim holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from RWTH Aachen University and is currently doing his master’s thesis in Data Science at AIM. In cooperation with INFORM GmbH, he focuses on the application of decision-focused learning techniques in inventory management.
E-mail: elena[dot]kuechle[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Elena Küchle is currently working on her master thesis at AIM. She focuses on enhancing neural network verification through the reuse of previously proved properties.
E-mail: philipp[dot]selz[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Philipp Selz B.Sc. does a masters thesis at our chair where he investigates how synthetic data generated by means of diffusion models can help in music information retrieval.
E-mail: nadim[dot]adham[at]rwth-aachen[dot]de
Nadim holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University and is now continuing with a master’s degree at ETH Zurich. In his thesis and publication, he investigated zero-shot detection of LLM-generated code.
