About me

I am an assistant professor at the University of Siegen and head of the Visual Computing group. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2023 from the University of Mannheim under the supervision of Prof Dr.-Ing. Margret Keuper, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Siegen under the supervision of Prof Dr. Michael Moeller from 2023 to 2025.

Together with Aaron Klein, Arber Zela, Giovanni Zappella and Rhea Sukthanker I also organize the AutoML Seminars as part of the ELLIS units Berlin and Freiburg. I was part of the organization team of the second workshop on neural architecture search @ ICLR 2021, and am part of the organizing team of the first ``learning 2 sense’’ workshop @ NeurIPS 2025

My research mainly focuses on efficient graph representations and embeddings for supervised surrogate models for neural architecture search.

News

• 10/2025 Our paper on Layered Quantum Architecture Search for 3D Point Cloud Classification was accepted at 3DV 2026!
• 09/2025 Excited to start an assistant professorship at the University of Siegen for Visual Computing!
• 08/2025 We are organizing a NeurIPS 2025 Workshop Learning 2 Sense!
• 05/2025 Our paper Transferrable Surrogates in Expressive Neural Architecture Search Spaces was accepted at AutoML 2025!
• 03/2024 I am part of the tutoral and workshop chair at AutoML 2025!
• 01/2025 Our paper Can We Talk Models Into Seeing the World Differently? was accepted at ICLR 2025!