TIM LUKA HORSTMANN Email: lukahorstmann@gmx.de Website: horstmann.tech | LinkedIn: TimLukaHorstmann | GitHub: luka512 Birthday: 05.12.2000 ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Impact-driven computer scientist with a strong foundation in machine learning, NLP and applied AI. Holds a Distinction master’s degree from the University of Cambridge and is currently pursuing a second master’s in Data & AI at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Combines academic excellence with hands-on experience at Hi! Paris, McKinsey, Amazon and Continental. Passionate about applying cutting-edge AI to real-world challenges in industry and research. ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ EDUCATION MSc Data & Artificial Intelligence — Institut Polytechnique de Paris (École Polytechnique & Télécom Paris) Palaiseau, France | Sep 2024 – Present - Current grade 18.45 / 20 (≈ 4.0 US GPA) - Ranked #1/196 in “Machine & Deep Learning” (19.9 / 20) - Directly admitted to the second year (M2) - Courses: Deep & Reinforcement Learning, NLP, Logic & Symbolic AI, Data Mining, AI Ethics MPhil Advanced Computer Science — University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK | Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 - Distinction (86 %); 3rd of 61; college prize winner - Courses: NLP, Multicore Semantics & Programming, Cyber-crime, Mobile Health - Senior rower (stroke & seat 6), won “super blades” at May Bumps BSc Business Informatics — RheinMain University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden, Germany | Sep 2019 – Sep 2022 - GPA 1.0 / 1.0 (top of year); completed 210 ECTS in 6 semesters - First and only student to attain perfect GPA; member of audit committee for CS courses Allgemeine Hochschulreife — Städtisches Gymnasium Erwitte Erwitte, Germany | Aug 2011 – Aug 2019 - GPA 0.9 (surpassed best possible 1.0) - Selected for North-Rhine Westphalia Academy for Mathematics & Computer Science ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ WORK EXPERIENCE Machine Learning Research Engineer Intern — École Polytechnique & Hi! PARIS Paris, France | Apr 2025 – Present - Researching natural-sounding French text-to-speech; supervisor Prof. Eric Moulines - Implemented & fine-tuned multimodal architectures; rebuilt audio pipeline (↑ 80 % efficiency, ⅓ cost) - Deployed SOTA LLMs (Phi-4, Qwen-3, DeepSeek-R1) via Ollama in zero/few-shot & CoT settings Fellow Intern — McKinsey & Company *(full-time return offer)* Munich, Germany | May 2023 – Jul 2023 - Supported multiyear profitability transformation for leading EU automotive supplier - Built financial models & risk assessments presented to CEO, CFO & supervisory board Business Intelligence Intern — Amazon *(full-time return offer)* London, UK | Oct 2022 – Apr 2023 - Led inbound logistics project for Pan-EU surface network (≈ $38 M annual impact) - Created Redshift ETL & QuickSight dashboard to resolve transportation disruptions Dual Student (Software Engineer & Data Scientist) — Continental AG Frankfurt, Germany | Sep 2019 – Sep 2022 - Automated IoT device configuration with Ansible across 55 plants (≈ €450 k savings / yr) - Integrated Mendix low-code platform incl. SSO (Keycloak) & REST services ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ TECHNICAL SKILLS Programming  Python (adv.), Java (adv.), SQL (adv.), JavaScript, HTML/CSS, VBA, Cypher, SPARQL Data Science/ML PyTorch, Transformers, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Ollama, llama.cpp, Qwen-Agent Tools/Platforms Git, Weights & Biases, Docker, AWS, Redshift, QuickSight, Mendix, MS Office ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ SELECTED PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS T-REX: Table-Refute-or-Entail eXplainer — Institut Polytechnique de Paris | 2025 Submitted to ECML PKDD 2025 Demo Track — https://t-rex.r2.enst.fr/ - First live fact-checker for tabular claims using instruction-tuned reasoning LLMs - Streams reasoning steps & highlights cells; multilingual I/O; OCR via VLMs/Tesseract - 89 % accuracy on TabFact (competitive with SOTA) - Stack: Python, FastAPI/SlowAPI, Ollama, OCR, HTML/CSS/JS J.A.R.V.I.S.: Local Voice-Enabled AI Assistant — Independent Project | 2025 - Fully local ASR → LLM → TTS voice assistant, CPU-only via quantized models - Dockerized; live on Hugging Face Spaces; > 650 NPM downloads of custom MCP Weather Server - Tech: Python, FastAPI, Whisper, llama.cpp, Qwen-Agent, Kokoro TTS, MCP, Docker Discovery & Ontology Matching of Financial Regulatory Information — University of Cambridge | 2023-24 - Built *FRIDAY*, first end-to-end NLP system for discovering/classifying FRI in legal docs - Mid-80s ROUGE (↑ 37 % vs baselines); strong cross-domain generalization - Collaboration with RegGenome & Cambridge Judge Business School; supervisor Prof. Paula Buttery - Tech: Python, RoBERTa, BiLSTM, Tesseract OCR, PyMuPDF, sequence tagging Disaggregation Algorithm for Customer Demand Planning Using ML — Continental AG | 2022 Bachelor thesis (grade 1.0) - XGBoost-based forecasting to disaggregate demand; ↑ R² up to 37 % vs SAP baseline - Trained on 10 M+ records; deployed in official forecasting pipeline (Q4 2022) ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS 2025 Winner, {Tech: Europe} Hackathon (1st/27 teams) – AI voice coach, now launching 2024 Alumni Association Prize for Graduate Excellence — University of Cambridge    QuantCo Scholar — German-American Conference at Harvard University    France Excellence Europa Scholarship — French Government    IP Paris Excellence Scholarship — full tuition waiver & stipend 2022 ContiBestenEhrung & Academic Excellence Bonus — Continental AG 2021 Scholarship — Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (≤ 0.3 % of students) 2019 Deutschlandstipendium; e-fellows.net Scholarship;    Best Graduate in NRW; DMV Prize (German Mathematical Society) ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ LANGUAGES & EXTRACURRICULARS Languages German (native), English (fluent, TOEFL 109), French (intermediate; DELF A1-B1, DFP B2) Societies German Informatics Society, VDI, Cambridge Union & German Society Mentoring McKinsey College/Firsthand, BCG LINK/Emerald, Bain Spark Volunteering First saxophonist – symphonic wind orchestra; founding board member, Junge Union Erwitte Interests AI, Space Travel, Piano, Rowing, Jogging, Table Tennis, Tennis, Hiking, Skiing, Travelling ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Last updated: June 2025