Co-developed several open-source tools for HPO methods and AutoML systems
Team member of three AutoML competition wins (2016, 2018, 2020)
Paper 'Put CASH on Bandits: A Max K-Armed Problem for Automated Machine Learning' accepted at NeurIPS'25
Paper 'In-Context Decision Making for Optimizing Complex AutoML Pipelines' accepted at ECAI'25 and to be presented at EWRL'25
Paper 'In-Context Learning of Soft Nearest Neighbor Classifiers for Intelligible Tabular Machine Learning' accepted as poster and oral at TRL@ACL'25
Paper 'Towards Localization via Data Embedding for TabPFN' accepted at TRL@NeurIPS'24
Research Experience
Early Career Research Group Leader of 'AutoML for Science' at the University of Tübingen (2023–2025), within the Cluster of Excellence 'Machine Learning for Science'
Junior head of the Automl.org group
Teaches seminars such as 'Tabular Machine Learning' at TU Dortmund
Co-organized the AutoML workshop series at ICML in 2019, 2020, and 2021
Served as Social Chair (2022–2023), Program Chair (2024), and Non-Traditional Content Track Chair (2025) for the AutoML Conference