Benedikt Heidrich
Data Scientist
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolBenedikt Heidrich is a data scientist with nine years of experience blending research-grade time series expertise and practical ML engineering, currently at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. As a core developer of the widely used sktime library he has driven key features—adding foundation model support, a graphical pipeline, new estimators, and benchmark improvements—while fixing subtle data-handling bugs and expanding xarray compatibility. His background includes a PhD-track research role at KIT and hands-on software work across Fraunhofer and industry, giving him fluency in both academic rigor and production delivery. Known for turning advanced time-series methods into robust, usable tooling, he often bridges plotting/benchmarks and algorithmic implementations to make models easier to evaluate and deploy.
9 years of coding experience
Dr.-Ing., Informatics, Dr.-Ing., Informatics at Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyMaster, Computer Science, 1,0, Master, Computer Science, 1,0 at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
English, German
Stackoverflow
214reputation
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13answers
4questions
Github Skills (20)
python10
data-science10
scikit10
pandas10
machine-learning10
time-series10
numpy10
forecasting10
scikit-learn10
forecast10
data-analysis10
scipy9
data-structures6
hibernate6
spring-boot6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sktime/sktime
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
A unified framework for machine learning with time series
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:368 reviews, 2 commits, 114 PRs in 21 days
Contributions summary:Benedikt primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the `sktime` repository, focusing on time series analysis and machine learning tasks. They addressed issues related to data handling, specifically fixing bugs in the `check_equal_time_index` function and expanding support for `xarray` `DataArray` data types. The user's work included improvements to plotting utilities, such as fixing rendering issues and addressing deprecation warnings. Furthermore, the user introduced a `CurveFitForecaster` based on `scipy.optimize_curve` and made substantial improvements to the benchmarking module.
forecastingtime-series-analysistime-series-regressiondata-sciencedeep-learning
KIT-IAI/pyWATTS
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
pyWATTS: Python Workflow Automation Tool for Time-Series
Contributions:4 releases, 117 reviews, 160 commits in 2 years 4 months
workflowpythonautomationtime-seriesworkflow-automation
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