News & Updates
Latest updates from my professional journey.
Next chapter: Ph.D. at the L3S Research Center
Starting in December 2026, I will pursue a Ph.D. on agentic AI systems at the L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, supervised by Prof. Dr. Sören Auer. First project: SciJEPA, JEPA embeddings for scientific knowledge graphs.
M.Sc. completed with overall grade 1.0
Finished my M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at Leibniz University Hannover with an overall grade of 1.0. My thesis with Volkswagen AG built an LLM web agent for multi-step workflows that reaches up to 95.9% strict success rate.
First-author paper accepted at CIKM 2026
"WCI: The Web Context Interface" (with N. Ghandeharioun and O. Karras) was accepted at the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026).
Master thesis at Volkswagen
Starting my master thesis at Volkswagen with the title: Supporting Multi-Step Workflows with LLM-Based Web Automation using Agentic Context Engineering and Selective Multimodal Reasoning.
1st place — Bremen Big Data Challenge (BBDC) 2026
Won the BBDC challenge and attained first place. Open-source solution and write-up are on GitHub.
Dean's List — Leibniz University Hannover
Honored on the Dean's List of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FEI) for study year 2025.
Oral presentation at DAI 2025 in London
Presented "Learning to Play Blackjack: A Curriculum Learning Perspective" at the International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence.
Joined AI Grid
Became a member of the AI Grid, an early-career AI network.
Started internship at Sonova
Joined Sonova in Hannover as an intern in AI-based speech signal processing, working on neural bandwidth extension of occluded in-ear speech signals.
Joined TIB as Student Research Assistant
Started working at TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in the Data Science & Digital Libraries research group (IDaS).
Started Master's Degree
Began my M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at Leibniz University Hannover.