Simon Witzke
Research Assistant at Hasso Plattner Institute
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Witzke is a research-oriented software engineer and PhD student at the Hasso Plattner Institute with 11 years of experience building data-driven AI solutions and tooling. He co-founded and served as CTO of onetask/kern.ai, where he focused on accelerating AI training pipelines by turning data bottlenecks into rapid, high-quality labeling workflows. As a research assistant and technical advisor, he bridges academic rigor in data analytics and computational statistics with pragmatic product development for startups. His background spans industry roles at Cognizant and HP, plus teaching stochastics, reflecting both applied engineering and strong quantitative foundations. Based in Berlin, he emphasizes finding high-impact use cases for AI early—an approach that has guided his move from hands-on engineering to research-led tooling.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)Doctor's Degree, Data Analytics and Computational Statistics, Doctor's Degree, Data Analytics and Computational Statistics at Hasso Plattner InstituteExchange, Computer Science, Exchange, Computer Science at University of Staffordshire
English, German
Stackoverflow
345reputation
8kreached
1answer
5questions
Github Skills (29)
cancer-detection8
sftp6
angular6
ng-bootstrap6
model-view-controller6
ram6
css6
python6
servlet6
java6
chainer6
jsp6
multiclass-classification5
convolutional-neural-networks5
caffe4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
witsyke/ci-taec-discretization-impact
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year
hpi-sam/GNN-Effectants
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes in 3 months
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