Successfully defended his PhD thesis titled 'Online Learning under Partial Feedback' with magna cum laude in April 2023.
Paper 'Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit with Costly Feature Observation in Non-stationary Environments' accepted for publication at the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing in April 2024.
Paper 'Non-stationary Linear Bandits with Dimensionality Reduction for Large-Scale Recommender Systems' accepted for publication at the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing in March 2024.
Paper 'Non-Stationary Delayed Combinatorial Semi-Bandit With Causally Related Rewards' published in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing in April 2025.
Paper 'Robust Inverse Reinforcement Learning under State Adversarial Perturbations' accepted for publication at the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) in July 2025.
Preprint of the recent paper 'Quantum-Inspired Reinforcement Learning in the Presence of Epistemic Ambivalence' available in March 2025.
Paper 'Linear Combinatorial Semi-Bandit with Causally Related Rewards' accepted for publication at the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in April 2022.
Research Experience
Held postdoctoral positions at the University of Tübingen and Ruhr-University Bochum, and worked as an AI researcher at SAP Signavio during 2023-2024.
Worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin and the Technical University of Hamburg from 2017 to 2022.
Joined the Decision Making group at the University of Tübingen as a research assistant in June 2022.
Started a freelance consultant position at Datalyze Solutions GmbH, Germany, in May 2022.
Served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Tübingen in November 2021.
Paper 'Data-Driven Online Recommender Systems with Costly Information Acquisition' accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) in September 2021.
Presented an accepted paper at IJCAI 2022 in Vienna in July 2022.
Teaching Assistant for the course 'Introduction to Game Theory with Application in Multi-Agent Systems' during the winter semester at the University of Tübingen in September 2022.
Education
Received a Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 2023.
Background
Machine learning scientist with research interests in reinforcement learning, imitation learning, representation learning, and causality in LLMs.