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Philipp Koch

ML Engineer with a focus on NLP and a passion for learning.

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ⓘ About

I’m an ML Engineer passionate about NLP, but also interested in vision, speech, and multimodal systems. Recently, I’ve become particularly fascinated by reinforcement learning and its potential for fine-tuning foundation models.
Currently, I work at BLACKFIELD AI in Bremen, where I develop AI-based solutions for various industries. Previously, I was at Prognos AG, where I leveraged LLMs and a range of NLP techniques to extract insights from large unstructured datasets.
In my free time, I like to stay up to date with AI research, build useful open-source libraries, and go cycling or running.

🎓 Education

I studied in beautiful Munich at LMU, where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Statistics and a Master’s degree in Statistics and Data Science. During my studies, I spent a semester abroad both in my bachelor’s and master’s programs: at NTU Singapore and Tsinghua University Beijing, respectively.
From early on, I focused on machine learning, diving into NLP well before the recent boom. While I’ve always loved coding, I also enjoy the mathematical challenges behind ML, which led me to place a stronger emphasis on statistics during my master’s.
During that time, I also founded the Munich🥨NLP Meetup, which I still co-organize today. At the end of my master’s, I received an award for the institute’s best statistical consulting project in 2023, where the HTR model I built even outperformed Google’s Cloud Vision model and the corresponding paper was later published.

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