Marvin Koss

2024– M.Sc. Scientific Computing, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg — GPA 1.7
2022–2024 B.Sc. Mathematics, Heidelberg — GPA 2.1
since 2017 B.A. Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg — curr. GPA 1.3
2016–2017 Computer Science, Universität Siegen — transferred to Heidelberg
2008–2016 Abitur, Gymnasium Oedeme, Lüneburg — 2.1

2025/26 Research Assistant, Section Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, UKHD — preprocessing pipeline for structural fMRI in an aging study
2026 Independent Research, FR8 Cohort 2, Helsinki — developed CLUE, a continual-learning method mitigating catastrophic forgetting
2024–25 Research Assistant, ICL — membership-inference-resistant time-series forecasting; proof of model collapse
2024–25 Research Assistant, IWR — proofreading graduate-level lecture notes (book)
2024 Research Assistant, IWR — developing a novel particle-based optimizer (code)
2023 Research Assistant, IWR — analysing a novel particle-based optimizer from a mean-field perspective (paper)
2020–22 Research Assistant, CSG, ZITI — neural-network quantization tool for the DeepChip project; UQ with BNNs (slides)
2019–20 Webmaster, ICL — site maintenance; development of the HCH19 site

SS 2018 TA — Formal Mathematical Foundations for Computational Linguists — teaching mathematical basics and proof techniques; grading
WS 2018 TA — Formal and Computational Semantics — tutorials, lectures, Python assignments, grading

B.Sc. Thesis — Mean-field Particle Swarm Optimization (pdf) — sup. JProf. Dr. Jakob Zech
B.A. Thesis — Extended Key-Value Retrieval Networks (code) — sup. Prof. Dr. A. Sokolov
Project — Pragmatic Modelling of Utterances Using First-Order Logic Semantic Representations (code) — sup. Dr. M. Herweg
Project — Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes for WSI — sup. Dr. V. Nastase, Dr. M. Herweg

Python — 9 years: numpy, pytorch, pyro, sklearn, keras, spaCy, nltk, tensorflow, HF transformers
C++ — basic (example), SQL, Java — basic

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