Karim Knaebel
Doctoral Student at RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolKarim Knaebel is a Computer Vision PhD student at RWTH Aachen with 11 years of software engineering experience, focusing on 3D scene understanding and self-supervised learning. He combines academic research—implementing and evaluating deep learning models in PyTorch and preparing top-tier conference submissions—with practical engineering, having developed and monetized mobile apps and contributed to widely used open-source projects like Neovim and Android libraries. His background spans mathematical algorithm implementation in C++ for computer algebra systems to UX-focused Android improvements, reflecting strong cross-stack fluency. Based in Aachen, he brings a rare mix of rigorous theoretical work and hands-on product polish, including fixes for critical bitmap-handling bugs and platform-specific UI optimizations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
German, English
Github Skills (20)
text-editor10
ui-design10
android-recyclerview10
java10
vim10
music-application10
neovim10
lua10
material-design10
javas10
api10
android10
glidejs10
player10
audio-player10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
VinylMusicPlayer/VinylMusicPlayer
May 2018 - Aug 2018
A material designed music player for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:10 commits, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Karim primarily focused on improving the user experience and fixing bugs within the Android music player application. Their work included refining the display of album information by handling unknown or missing data gracefully. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to artist image handling and implemented enhancements for notch support within the application's user interface, demonstrating a focus on platform-specific optimizations. Finally, the user also contributed to code cleanup and refactoring, improving the overall code maintainability and quality.
vinylmaterialandroidkotlinmaterial-design
florent37/GlidePalette
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Android Lollipop Palette is now easy to use with Glide
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Karim primarily contributed to the `glidepalette` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and API. They made several commits to improve the library's internal workings, including cleaning up code and adding the capability to intercept the Palette builder. Key changes involved modifying the `GlidePalette` class to integrate better with Glide and refining the API. Furthermore, the user corrected a critical bug related to bitmap handling within the `GlidePalette` class.
android-libraryandroidpalettekotlinlollipop
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