Lukas Hermann
Machine Learning Engineer at Vara
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Hermann is a Machine Learning Engineer in Berlin with 8 years of applied AI research and production experience, currently building models at Vara.ai. His background spans robotics and ML research—he authored a popular open‑source benchmark and dataset for language‑conditioned robot control (214 stars, 78 citations) and developed a Transformer variant that improved imitation learning performance by 19%. He has hands‑on experience deploying ML systems on cloud and edge platforms, fine‑tuning Llama2 for medical entity extraction, and integrating heterogeneous biochemical and ethnobotanical data to prioritize compound‑target hypotheses. Lukas combines strong academic training (MSc with top grades) and HPC optimization skills—he achieved a 50% distributed training speedup via a shared‑memory dataloader—alongside practical DevOps work with Docker, AWS, Lambda Labs and Vast.ai. Known for turning research into reproducible code and workflows, he bridges cutting‑edge model development with production deployment in scientific and robotics domains.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, GPA 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, GPA 4.0 at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im BreisgauBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Sapienza Università di Roma
German, English, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch
Github Skills (77)
benchmark10
kinematics10
simulator10
bullet10
robotics10
collision-detection10
sdk10
computer-vision10
pybullet10
collision10
reinforcement-learning10
bullet-physics10
simulation10
physics-engine10
horizon10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lukashermann/baselines
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:26 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
pytorchimplementationsreinforcement-learning-algorithmsdeep-learningreinforcement-learning
lukashermann/pytorch-rl
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:54 pushes, 33 branches in 1 month
pytorchdeep-learningreinforcement-learningdeep-reinforcement-learningvisdom
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