Lukas Balles
Senior Research Scientist at Bioptimus
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolLukas Balles is a Senior Research Scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning research and applied engineering, currently working on optimization and large-scale ML systems. He holds a PhD candidacy at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and has contributed to continual learning, model monitoring, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning during roles at AWS and Aleph Alpha. Lukas combines deep mathematical training (BSc in Mathematics, MSc in Scientific Computing, visiting at Tsinghua) with hands-on product-oriented research, having interned at Google Brain and built medical imaging and risk-modeling solutions earlier in his career. He is pragmatic about moving research into production and is open to R&D opportunities; a less-obvious strength is his track record of bridging rigorous optimization theory with scalable implementation across both academia and industry.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy Machine Learning at International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS)Master of Science (MSc) Scientific Computing, Master of Science (MSc) Scientific Computing at Heidelberg UniversityVisiting Student Mathematics and Computer Science, Visiting Student Mathematics and Computer Science at Tsinghua University
English, German, French
Github Skills (29)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
neural-network10
pytorch-lightning9
deep-neural-networks9
hyperparameter-tuning8
aws8
neural8
pytorch7
sagemaker7
machine-learning-algorithms7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lballes/lballes.github.io
Feb 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
MethodsOfMachineLearning/probabilistic_line_search
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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