About

I am a protocol engineer at Provable, working on scalable blockchain systems. Furthermore, I did work on machine learning model inference in zero knowledge proofs. Before that, I did my Ph.D. at KIT in Germany, advised by Ali Sunyaev. Over the summer of 2022, I was a visiting researcher at the Systopia lab of UBC Vancouver, hosted by Ivan Beschastnikh. Previously, I graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

My research interests are in privacy-preserving machine learning, and blockchain-based data marketplaces for AI.

Crypto Work

Selected engineering work around zero-knowledge and the Aleo blockchain:

Publications

Talks

Indie-Hacking

Besides crypto work and research, I like to stay current with large ML models by building small products end-to-end. During my time in academia, while writing our HICSS paper on AI as a Service (AIaaS) adoption, I had to transcribe and analyze long interviews and learned first-hand how critical good transcripts are. That experience nudged me to put AIaaS into practice and ship my own service: InstantTranscriber - see the academic transcription workflow - a pragmatic speech-to-text tool focused on fast, accurate transcripts for interviews and podcasts.