Curriculum vitae

PhD (Dr.-Ing.)

• Dissertation: Enabling Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensing with Improved Service Quality
• Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Theel, Prof. Dr. Daniela Nicklas

Master of Science (MSc)

• Dissertation: An Efficient Power Reduction Technique for Wireless Sensor networks
• Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rabie Ramadan, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Meguid, Dr. Ahmad Shaaban

AI Architect for Adabas \& Natural

• Identifying AI use cases, contributing directly to product innovation within Adabas & Natural ecosystem
• Led the Natural AI Code Assistant project, leveraging LLMs for code generation and optimization within the Adabas & Natural ecosystem, accelerating modernization for enterprise mainframe applications.
• Developed an MVP with an API-first approach, enabling seamless integration into existing workflows and facilitating rapid prototyping for customer feedback.
• Implemented advanced agentic workflows using Langchain and Langgraph, enabling dynamic, context-aware code generation and problem-solving capabilities.
• Pioneered self-corrective strategies to iteratively enhance code quality and reliability in Natural language generation.
• Integrated semantic RAG pipelines to incorporate internal Natural documentation, improving contextual accuracy and usability of the code assistant.
• Connected local and remote tools via MCP servers, expanding the assistant’s capabilities and supporting hybrid deployment scenarios.
• Fine-tuned multiple open-source LLMs (Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen Coder) for high-accuracy Natural code generation, optimizing for enterprise workloads.
• Conducted customer interviews and innovation labs to gather requirements, validate use cases, and provide hands-on experience to clients, driving adoption and shaping the product roadmap.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with R&D, UX, and legal teams to ensure technical feasibility, exceptional user experience, and regulatory compliance.
• Participated in the selection and onboarding of development partners, acting as product owner to ensure alignment with business and technical requirements throughout the productionization process.
• Supervised a multidisciplinary team of researchers and students, overseeing initiatives in data generation and MCP server development.
• Led product testing cycles and continuous improvement efforts, ensuring delivery of high-quality, customer-centric AI solutions.

Senior Research Scientist

• Leading several national and international research projects
• Representing Software AG towards partners and funding agencies, e.g., BMBF and ITEA
• Acquiring new projects, e.g., Engineering Large Foundation Models for Enterprise Integration
• Developed several tools for automated data cleaning and machine learning pipeline orchestration
• Creating reports & deliverables within deadlines, & liaising with the product development teams
• Generating multiple patents and research papers published in highly-ranked conferences

Postdoctoral Researcher

• Leading several national and international projects, with supervising multiple students
• Developed several data-driven tools for energy-efficient IoT applications, e.g., indoor mapping
• Created and instructed several graduate-level courses, e.g., real-time concepts in embedded systems, distributed systems, mobile computing lab, and autonomous driving seminar

Research Associate

• Developed data-driven tools for QoS-aware Wireless Sensor Networks & BLE-based localization
• Coordinated events and workshops as part of managing the SCARE graduate school

Freelancer Technical Author

• Authored a 170-page course book for an online graduate program detailing IoT architectures, use cases, and fundamental technologies such as cloud services and communication networks.

Assistant Lecturer

• Involved in the ApplS-LAB project, and tutored several undergrad courses, e.g., communication theory

• Received the Best Paper Runner-up award at DEEM'23
• Received the Best Paper Runner-up award at IJCAI'23

• Received the Elevating Excellence Award in Innovation in the DACH region for my contributions at Software AG