Stefan Hackstein
Geschäftsführer at illuminAId GmbH
Waldshut, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Hackstein is a PhD-trained physicist and AI educator with nine years of experience bridging astrophysics, Bayesian data science, and generative AI for higher education. He lectures on data science and deep learning while researching practical, ethically aligned AI applications—especially how generative models can enhance teaching and learning. As founder and Geschäftsführer of illuminAId, he packages research-driven training, software development, and EU-compliant hosting to help institutions adopt AI that augments strengths rather than replaces people. His academic work spans high-performance computation and statistical inference in cosmology, giving him a strong quantitative foundation that informs pragmatic AI solutions. Based in Waldshut, Germany, he combines hands-on model development with didactic expertise to translate complex AI into classroom-ready practice.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at University of Hamburg
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Github Skills (5)
galaxy8
datasets2
solar2
machine-learning1
physics1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shackste/galaxy-generator
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
galaxy generator for euclid
Contributions:2 reviews, 82 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
euclidgalaxy
shackste/publications
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
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