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Reinhard Heckel
Google Scholar ID: ZWV0I7cAAAAJ
Technical University of Munich and Rice University
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5,928
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69
Publications
20
Co-authors
14
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reinhard.heckel@gmail.com
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Publications
12 items
Test-time RL alignment exposes task familiarity artifacts in LLM benchmarks
2026
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Asymmetric Prompt Weighting for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
2026
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Transformer-Based Decoding in Concatenated Coding Schemes Under Synchronization Errors
2025
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Trace Reconstruction with Language Models
2025
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Near Optimal Code Construction for the Adversarial Torn Paper Channel with Edit Errors
International Symposium on Information Theory · 2025
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OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models
2025
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Efficient Noise Calculation in Deep Learning-based MRI Reconstructions
2025
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LLM-Guided Search for Deletion-Correcting Codes
2025
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Authored 'Deep Learning for Computational Imaging', to be published by Oxford University Press (draft available as PDF)
Maintains an up-to-date publication list on Google Scholar
Research widely covered by major media and science programs including BBC, Netflix, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Galileo, and 'Gut zu Wissen'
Delivered a talk at DLD on 'Seeing the World with AI'
Interviewed Sam Altman at TUM
Led the team that stored Netflix’s first original series in DNA
Pioneering work in DNA-based data storage
Background
Professor of Machine Learning (Tenured Associate Professor) at the Department of Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Adjunct faculty at Rice University
Research focuses on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and information processing
Develops algorithms and theoretical foundations for deep learning, especially in medical imaging
Works on mathematical and empirical underpinnings of machine learning
Explores the use of DNA as a digital information technology
Co-authors
14 total
Robert Grass
ETH Zurich
Helmut Bölcskei
Professor of Mathematical Information Science, ETH Zurich
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
University of Southern California
Kannan Ramchandran
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Ilan Shomorony
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Co-author 6
Paul Hand
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northeastern University
Co-author 8
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