Sören Klingner
Product Owner at CARIAD
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSören Klingner is a product-focused AI researcher and software engineer with 10 years of experience building human-centered machine learning systems, currently shaping in-car gaming as Product Owner at CARIAD. He combines academic depth—a PhD in Informatics—with hands-on work in vehicle occupant monitoring, affective computing, VR, and HCI from roles at DFKI and Fortiss. Sören has a track record of turning computational models of emotion and deep decision-making networks into practical prototypes and production features, and he pairs this with expertise in motion capture, Unreal/Unity, and embedded vehicle contexts. His background in eyetracking, haptic feedback and immersive interfaces gives him a unique perspective on designing AI that understands and responds to people, not just signals.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at RheinMain University of Applied SciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenNanodegree Deep Reinforcement Learning, Nanodegree Deep Reinforcement Learning at UdacityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
German, English
Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
soerenklingner/soerenklingner.github.io
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 day
EwigerWanderer/ScaryRoomsV2
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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