Niklas Pirnay
Postdoctoral Scientist at Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Pirnay is a postdoctoral scientist in Berlin with 10 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning and quantum computing, now researching variational quantum computation and physically unclonable functions. He completed his PhD at Technische Universität Berlin after progressing through bachelor’s and master’s studies at the same institution, combining rigorous academic training with hands-on research. His work bridges practical ML techniques and quantum programming, with a focus on adversarial and security-relevant applications such as ML attacks on PUFs. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable designing variational quantum circuits and implementing classical ML pipelines, bringing experimental rigor and reproducible code to exploratory quantum research. An understated strength is his continuity within a single leading research environment, giving him deep domain knowledge and long-term project ownership.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Computer Science, PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
Github Skills (28)
simulation10
cryptanalysis10
security10
science10
machine-learning9
cryptography9
scrapy7
pair-programming6
external5
crawler5
scraper5
socket-io4
visual-studio-code4
proxy4
nodejs4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
n1kn4x/timing-analysis
Mar 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
n1kn4x/robot
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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