Tobias Röddiger
Group Leader (Wearable AI Systems) at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolTobias Röddiger is a Science Resident and wearable AI systems specialist with 10 years of experience bridging academic research and practical product development. He led a Wearable AI group at KIT after completing a PhD there and has held visiting positions at MIT and Cambridge, blending deep technical research with hands-on prototyping. A prolific hacker—having attended 25+ global hackathons and reaching the Imagine Cup world finals—he also founded a cross-platform app studio and interned at Microsoft, showing a strong product and engineering instinct. His work focuses on edge ML and open hardware for earable/wearable sensing (OpenEarable, edge-ml), reflecting a rare combination of embedded systems, machine learning, and mobile systems research. Based in Karlsruhe, he now contributes to building Europe’s AI ecosystem at IPAI Foundation while continuing to translate research into buildable, user-centered systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers shipping experimental prototypes that reveal new research directions rather than only publishing papers.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
general higher education entrance qualification, general higher education entrance qualification at Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium WeinheimVisiting PhD Student, Space Exploration Initiative, Visiting PhD Student, Space Exploration Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Visiting Researcher, Informatik, Visiting Researcher, Informatik at Lancaster University
German, English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (84)
human-computer-interaction10
metadata10
render10
adonisjs10
heat10
svg10
branding10
plot10
heatmap10
csv10
hci10
raster10
eye-tracking10
pjax10
ionicons10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpenEarable/dashboard
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:45 PRs, 113 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 5 months
TobiasRoeddiger/RadarGraph
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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