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-Tim Luka Horstmann
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-E-Mail: lukahorstmann@gmx.de
-Birthdate: 05 December 2000
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+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
-Sep. 2024–Oct. 2025
-Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France | MSc in Data and AI
-∙ Current GPA: 4.0 (scale 0–4, 4 being best)
-∙ Directly admitted to the second year of the Data and Artificial Intelligence master’s program
-∙ Courses on Deep & Reinforcement Learning, NLP, Logic & Symbolic AI, Data Mining, and AI Ethics
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-Oct. 2023–June 2024
-University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | MPhil in Advanced Computer Science
-∙ Grade: Distinction (86%), graduated 3rd out of 61 students, awarded college prize
-∙ Thesis: legal NLP system to automate discovery and ontology matching of financial regulations
-∙ Courses on NLP, Multicore Semantics & Programming, Cybercrime, and Mobile Health
-∙ Senior rower at college boat club (stroke and 6 seat, awarded super blades during May Bumps)
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-Oct. 2019–Sep. 2022
-RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Germany | BSc in Business Informatics
-∙ Grade: 1.0, top of the year, graduated with distinction (scale 1–5, 1 being best)
-∙ First and only student in this degree program ever to achieve the highest possible GPA of 1.0
-∙ Thesis: XGBoost-based time series forecasting algorithm for customer demand planning
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-Aug. 2011–Aug. 2019
-Städtisches Gymnasium Erwitte, Germany | Allgemeine Hochschulreife (university entrance qual.)
-∙ Grade: 0.9, top of the year (scale 1–5, 1 being best)
-∙ Chosen to participate in federal state’s 18. Academy for Mathematics and Computer Science
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+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
-Apr. 2025–Aug. 2025
-Hi! PARIS, Machine Learning Research Engineer Intern | Paris, France
-∙ Conducting and publishing ML research at HEC Paris and Ecole Polytechnique
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-May 2023–July 2023
-McKinsey & Company, Fellow Intern | Munich, Germany
-∙ Advised leading European automotive supplier on a multiyear sustainable transformation
-program to increase profitability and adapt to disruptive industry trends like electrification
-∙ Developed financial analyses and risk assessments presented to CEO, CFO, and supervisory board
-(Received full-time return offer)
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-Oct. 2022–Apr. 2023
-Amazon, Business Intelligence Intern | London, United Kingdom
-∙ Led inbound logistics project for Amazon's PanEu surface network, achieving $38M/year impact
-∙ Worked with stakeholders across different organizations and drove resolution of the defect by
-setting up a QuickSight dashboard on top of Redshift ETL pipelines and implementing ML models
-(Received full-time return offer)
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-Sep. 2019–Sep. 2022
-Continental AG, Dual Student | Frankfurt, Germany
-∙ Three years of employment as Software Engineer and Data Scientist alongside full-time studies
-∙ Automated configuration of IoT-Devices in 55 plants creating savings of 450,000€/year
-∙ Integrated low-code platform Mendix into existing IT infrastructure, incl. SSO and REST services
-∙ Developed novel AI model for demand forecasting, with 37% higher R2 than prior approaches
-(Received multiple full-time return offers)
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-EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
-Volunteer Activities:
-∙ First Saxophone in the symphonic wind orchestra Hellwegmusikanten Erwitte e.V.
-∙ Founding board member of political youth organization Junge Union Erwitte, member of CDU
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-Societies:
-∙ Cambridge Union (since 2023)
-∙ Cambridge University German Society (since 2023)
-∙ German Informatics Society (since 2021)
-∙ Association of German Engineers (2021–2022)
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-SKILLS & INTERESTS
-Languages:
-German (native) | English (fluent, TOEFL: 109) | French (fluent, DELF A1, A2 & B1, DFP affaires B2)
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-IT-Skills:
-Python (adv.) | Java (adv.) | SQL (adv.) | Cypher | SPARQL| VBA | JavaScript | Ruby | HTML/CSS
-Machine Learning (PyTorch, transformers, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib) | HPC | IoT
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-Scholarships & Career Programs:
-- France Excellence Europa: awarded to a select group of top-performing EU students (since 2024)
-- IP Paris Excellence: awarded for academic excellence; full funding of MSc & PhD (since 2024)
-- Studienstiftung: awarded for outstanding academic performance and potential (since 2021)
-- Deutschlandstipendium: awarded for excellent academic and social achievements (2019–2020)
-- McKinsey College | McKinsey Firsthand | BCG LINK | BCG Emerald | Bain Spark | e-fellows.net
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-Awards:
-∙ Alumni Association Prize for Graduate Excellence, University of Cambridge
-∙ Honored for outstanding achievements in Mathematics by the German Mathematical Society
-∙ Honored as one of the best Abitur graduates of NRW, Germany’s largest federal state
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-Interests:
-Artificial Intelligence | Space Travel | Stock Trading | Piano | Rowing | Tennis | Hiking | Travelling
+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