Knut Zoch
Research Fellow at Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolKnut Zoch is a research fellow based in Geneva with 11 years of experience turning petabyte-scale physics data into actionable insights using advanced statistical modeling and machine learning. He has led and coordinated international teams across 20+ concurrent initiatives at Harvard, Geneva, and CERN, delivering benchmark results on high-stakes ATLAS analyses. Skilled in anomaly detection, high-dimensional optimization, and classifier development, he combines deep technical rigor with strategic leadership and methodological stewardship. Knut also designs and teaches interdisciplinary ML workshops, adapting complex concepts and ethical considerations for diverse audiences. Notably, he has run real-time data quality operations and mentored global 24/7 teams to keep mission-critical pipelines reliable under production pressure.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at The University of Göttingen
Japanese, English, German
Github Skills (27)
particle-physics10
high-energy-physics10
cmake10
hosting10
jupyter-notebook7
machine-learning6
python6
jupyter6
data-science5
latex4
wallet3
zsh3
prompt2
crypto2
asynchronous2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
KLFitter/KLFitter
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
Repository hosting the KLFitter library – the Kinematic Likelihood Fitter.
Contributions:8 releases, 4 reviews, 733 commits in 3 years 6 months
hostingkinematic-likelihood-fitterlikelihoodcmakecplusplus
knutzk/kTheTex-bundle
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 16 PRs, 122 pushes in 1 year 7 months
latex
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