Summary
Paul Gavrikov is an independent AI researcher based in the Greater Freiburg area with 11 years of experience spanning computer vision, embedded systems, and wireless communications. He holds an MS and is pursuing a PhD while transitioning from postdoctoral work at the Tübingen AI Center to independent research focused on safety, interpretability, robustness, and transfer learning for vision models. His background uniquely blends hands-on embedded firmware and Bluetooth protocol work—contributing to industry standards—with academic research that produced award-winning conference publications. Paul has led industry-academia projects funded by EU and German federal programs, shipping prototypes in C and Python as well as applied research outputs. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who bridges low-level systems engineering and principled ML, able to translate safety-focused research into practical, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Freiburg
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Mannheim
German, English, Russian