Hey! I'm Mark.
I'm a student building a cool future with technology.
Currently exploring AI uncertainty and spiking neural networks.
Experience & Education
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2018 – 2027Gymnasium Eichendorffschule Wolfsburg13th-grade student at a private catholic Gymnasium.
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2025German Aerospace Center (DLR)Intern at the Institute of Transportation Systems Engineering.
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2025Colégio BonjaExchange student in Joinville, Brazil.
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2026ISMLL, University of HildesheimIntern at the Information Systems and Machine Learning Lab.
Featured Content
Jugend forscht • 2026
2nd of 12,000 at national research competition Jugend forscht
NDR • 2026
Jugend forscht state round 1st place (North German Broadcasting)
Wolfsburger Allgemeine • 2026
Jugend forscht state round 1st place (city newspaper)
Braunschweiger Zeitung • 2025
My RAG model featured in regional newspaper
YouTube • 2025
Experimenting with knowledge distillation in PyTorch
Spotify • 2026
Podcast guest on Amirali Banani's "Across STEM with YSI"
Projects & News
Some of my research and projects, built on my own or collaboratively (click on it for more details).
Jugend forscht 2nd nationally
2nd of 12,000 in the National Research Competition with my PSRGAN model.
German AI Championship 2025
1/10 Finalists at the German Federal AI Competition with my project EvidenzLLM.
Buildspace S5 2024: Cenabot
Autonomous food delivery robot for the last season of buildspace.
Meeting Federal Chancellor Merz
JuFo prize winners meeting the Federal Chancellor of Germany.
Spiking Neural Networks research
Experimenting with Spiking Neural Networks, built 10+ SNNs.
Silver at international competition
2nd place open age class of the international Luftfahrt Masters in Berlin.
Other side quests
Programs & Courses
HUVTSP, The Knowledge Society, Harvard's CS50, Buildspace and more.
Awards
German AI Championship finalist, Jugend forscht and more.
Volunteering
Youth STEM Initiative, judo coaching, AI club and more.
Summer Student & Intern
Harvard Undergraduate Ventures Tech Summer Program • 2025
Six-week technology and startup program by Harvard SEAS.
Interned at an SF fintech startup, learned from billion-dollar founders, and made new friends globally.
Interned at an SF fintech startup, learned from billion-dollar founders, and made new friends globally.
Activate Student
The Knowledge Society • 2024 – 2025
Worked with brilliant people from around the globe. Mentored by Max Newlon.
Innovate Student
The Knowledge Society • 2023 – 2024
Made icredible international friends and explored emerging technologies.
Harvard's CS50AI
Harvard CS50 • 2024
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Algorithms, bayesian probability, optimization, ml, and nlp.
Harvard's CS50X
Harvard CS50 • 2023
Introduction to Computer Science. C, Python, algorithms, data structures, memory, webdev.
Season 5 Builder
Buildspace n&w • 2024
Built an autonomous snack delivery robot in the final buildspace season.
Machine Learning Courses
Kaggle, University of Würzburg, Z2M • 2024 - 2026
Google 5-day Gen AI intensive, Mathematics behind LLMs, Intro to Deep Learning.
National Finalist
German Federal AI Championship (BWKI) • 2025
1/10 national finalists, presented my EvidenzLLM RAG-system to an expert jury in Frankfurt.
2nd Place Nationally
German Research Competition (Jugend forscht) • 2026
Largest STEM competition in Europe. 2nd out of about 12,000 students nationally with my PSRGAN model.
1st Place State of Lower Saxony
German Research Competition (Jugend forscht) • 2026
Interdisciplinary win in the lower saxony state round of Jugend forscht 2026 at TU Clausthal.
1st Place Region of Braunschweig
German Research Competition (Jugend forscht) • 2026
1st place in geo- and space sciences at the Braunschweig regional round of Jugend forscht 2026.
Industrially most valuable project
Association of German Engineers (VDI) • 2026
Special monetary prize at jugend Forscht 2026.
Best geographical project
German Society of Geography (DGfG) • 2026
Special monetary prize at jugend Forscht 2026.
Digital Photography
German Society of Photography (DGPh) • 2026
Special monetary prize at jugend Forscht 2026 by Prof. Dr. Gunter Weber.
And the invitation to present at the annual general meeting.
And the invitation to present at the annual general meeting.
Digitalization
Carl Zeiss AG • 2026
Special monetary prize at jugend Forscht 2026.
TKS Competitions
TKS • 2023 - 2024
- "Best presentation" in the global Microsoft team consulting challenge
- "Best presentation" in the cohort Moonshot Challenge
- Global Finalists in the Google team consulting challenge
- Global Finalists in the Innovate explore hackathon
- "Best presentation" in the cohort Moonshot Challenge
- Global Finalists in the Google team consulting challenge
- Global Finalists in the Innovate explore hackathon
Germany Chapter Lead
Youth STEM Initiative (YSI) • 2024 – present
Social media content, ML workshops, webdev, chapter organization.
Member
Youth STEM Initiative • 2024
Research in neural network optimization.
Judo Trainer
TVJahn Wolfsburg • 2023 – 2025
Coaching 30+ children at my local judo club.
AI Club Founder
EDS AI Club • 2024 – present
Founded the school AI club to teach ML to classmates and build cool projects together.