| TIM LUKA HORSTMANN | |
| Email: [email protected] | |
| Website: horstmann.tech | LinkedIn: TimLukaHorstmann | GitHub: luka512 | |
| Birthday: 05.12.2000 | |
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| PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY | |
| Impact-driven computer scientist with a strong foundation in machine learning, NLP and | |
| applied AI. Holds a Distinction master’s degree from the University of Cambridge and is | |
| currently pursuing a second master’s in Data & AI at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. | |
| Combines academic excellence with hands-on experience at Hi! Paris, McKinsey, Amazon | |
| and Continental. Passionate about applying cutting-edge AI to real-world challenges in | |
| industry and research. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
| MSc Data & Artificial Intelligence — Institut Polytechnique de Paris (École Polytechnique & Télécom Paris) | |
| Palaiseau, France | Sep 2024 – Present | |
| - Current grade 18.45 / 20 (≈ 4.0 US GPA) | |
| - Ranked #1/196 in “Machine & Deep Learning” (19.9 / 20) | |
| - Directly admitted to the second year (M2) | |
| - Courses: Deep & Reinforcement Learning, NLP, Logic & Symbolic AI, Data Mining, AI Ethics | |
| MPhil Advanced Computer Science — University of Cambridge | |
| Cambridge, UK | Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 | |
| - Distinction (86 %); 3rd of 61; college prize winner | |
| - Courses: NLP, Multicore Semantics & Programming, Cyber-crime, Mobile Health | |
| - Senior rower (stroke & seat 6), won “super blades” at May Bumps | |
| BSc Business Informatics — RheinMain University of Applied Sciences | |
| Wiesbaden, Germany | Sep 2019 – Sep 2022 | |
| - GPA 1.0 / 1.0 (top of year); completed 210 ECTS in 6 semesters | |
| - First and only student to attain perfect GPA; member of audit committee for CS courses | |
| Allgemeine Hochschulreife — Städtisches Gymnasium Erwitte | |
| Erwitte, Germany | Aug 2011 – Aug 2019 | |
| - GPA 0.9 (surpassed best possible 1.0) | |
| - Selected for North-Rhine Westphalia Academy for Mathematics & Computer Science | |
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| WORK EXPERIENCE | |
| Machine Learning Research Engineer Intern — École Polytechnique & Hi! PARIS | |
| Paris, France | Apr 2025 – Present | |
| - Researching natural-sounding French text-to-speech; supervisor Prof. Eric Moulines | |
| - Implemented & fine-tuned multimodal architectures; rebuilt audio pipeline (↑ 80 % efficiency, ⅓ cost) | |
| - Deployed SOTA LLMs (Phi-4, Qwen-3, DeepSeek-R1) via Ollama in zero/few-shot & CoT settings | |
| Fellow Intern — McKinsey & Company *(full-time return offer)* | |
| Munich, Germany | May 2023 – Jul 2023 | |
| - Supported multiyear profitability transformation for leading EU automotive supplier | |
| - Built financial models & risk assessments presented to CEO, CFO & supervisory board | |
| Business Intelligence Intern — Amazon *(full-time return offer)* | |
| London, UK | Oct 2022 – Apr 2023 | |
| - Led inbound logistics project for Pan-EU surface network (≈ $38 M annual impact) | |
| - Created Redshift ETL & QuickSight dashboard to resolve transportation disruptions | |
| Dual Student (Software Engineer & Data Scientist) — Continental AG | |
| Frankfurt, Germany | Sep 2019 – Sep 2022 | |
| - Automated IoT device configuration with Ansible across 55 plants (≈ €450 k savings / yr) | |
| - Integrated Mendix low-code platform incl. SSO (Keycloak) & REST services | |
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| TECHNICAL SKILLS | |
| Programming Python (adv.), Java (adv.), SQL (adv.), JavaScript, HTML/CSS, VBA, Cypher, SPARQL | |
| Data Science/ML PyTorch, Transformers, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Ollama, llama.cpp, Qwen-Agent | |
| Tools/Platforms Git, Weights & Biases, Docker, AWS, Redshift, QuickSight, Mendix, MS Office | |
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| SELECTED PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS | |
| T-REX: Table-Refute-or-Entail eXplainer — Institut Polytechnique de Paris | 2025 | |
| Submitted to ECML PKDD 2025 Demo Track — https://t-rex.r2.enst.fr/ | |
| - First live fact-checker for tabular claims using instruction-tuned reasoning LLMs | |
| - Streams reasoning steps & highlights cells; multilingual I/O; OCR via VLMs/Tesseract | |
| - 89 % accuracy on TabFact (competitive with SOTA) | |
| - Stack: Python, FastAPI/SlowAPI, Ollama, OCR, HTML/CSS/JS | |
| J.A.R.V.I.S.: Local Voice-Enabled AI Assistant — Independent Project | 2025 | |
| - Fully local ASR → LLM → TTS voice assistant, CPU-only via quantized models | |
| - Dockerized; live on Hugging Face Spaces; > 650 NPM downloads of custom MCP Weather Server | |
| - Tech: Python, FastAPI, Whisper, llama.cpp, Qwen-Agent, Kokoro TTS, MCP, Docker | |
| Discovery & Ontology Matching of Financial Regulatory Information — University of Cambridge | 2023-24 | |
| - Built *FRIDAY*, first end-to-end NLP system for discovering/classifying FRI in legal docs | |
| - Mid-80s ROUGE (↑ 37 % vs baselines); strong cross-domain generalization | |
| - Collaboration with RegGenome & Cambridge Judge Business School; supervisor Prof. Paula Buttery | |
| - Tech: Python, RoBERTa, BiLSTM, Tesseract OCR, PyMuPDF, sequence tagging | |
| Disaggregation Algorithm for Customer Demand Planning Using ML — Continental AG | 2022 | |
| Bachelor thesis (grade 1.0) | |
| - XGBoost-based forecasting to disaggregate demand; ↑ R² up to 37 % vs SAP baseline | |
| - Trained on 10 M+ records; deployed in official forecasting pipeline (Q4 2022) | |
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| AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS | |
| 2025 Winner, {Tech: Europe} Hackathon (1st/27 teams) – AI voice coach, now launching | |
| 2024 Alumni Association Prize for Graduate Excellence — University of Cambridge | |
| QuantCo Scholar — German-American Conference at Harvard University | |
| France Excellence Europa Scholarship — French Government | |
| IP Paris Excellence Scholarship — full tuition waiver & stipend | |
| 2022 ContiBestenEhrung & Academic Excellence Bonus — Continental AG | |
| 2021 Scholarship — Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (≤ 0.3 % of students) | |
| 2019 Deutschlandstipendium; e-fellows.net Scholarship; | |
| Best Graduate in NRW; DMV Prize (German Mathematical Society) | |
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| LANGUAGES & EXTRACURRICULARS | |
| Languages German (native), English (fluent, TOEFL 109), French (intermediate; DELF A1-B1, DFP B2) | |
| Societies German Informatics Society, VDI, Cambridge Union & German Society | |
| Mentoring McKinsey College/Firsthand, BCG LINK/Emerald, Bain Spark | |
| Volunteering First saxophonist – symphonic wind orchestra; founding board member, Junge Union Erwitte | |
| Interests AI, Space Travel, Piano, Rowing, Jogging, Table Tennis, Tennis, Hiking, Skiing, Travelling | |
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| Last updated: June 2025 |