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Projects & News

Some of my research and projects, built on my own or collaboratively (click on it for more details).

Jugend forscht 2026 Mark-Daniel Leupold
Jugend forscht 2nd nationally
31 May 2026

2nd of 12,000 in the National Research Competition with my PSRGAN model.

Jugend forscht 2026 Mark-Daniel Leupold PSRGAN geoanalysis
Geoanalyses with Super-Resolution
27 May 2026

Applications and tests of my PSRGAN project in geoanalyses.

Spiking CNN edge detection
Spiking CNN for edge detection
16 May 2026

Built a Spiking CNN for edge detection on BSDS500 beating CNN baselines.

Spiking Neural Netowork neuromorphic MNIST
Spiking Neural Networks research
4 May 2026

Experimenting with Spiking Neural Networks, built 10+ SNNs.

CAD LLM preprocessing
CAD-LLM preprocessing
2 May 2026

Colab with Volkswagen IE. Built a CAD preprocessing system for LLMs.

Jugend forscht 2026 Mark-Daniel Leupold
3rd at men's state championship
26 April 2026

Bronze at my first open age men's individual state championship.

German AI Championship 2025
14 Novemner 2025

1/10 Finalists at the German Federal AI Competition with my project EvidenzLLM.

Course Planner for my Classmates
15 August 2025

Our online course planner wasn't set up for the first week, so I built a better one.

FinBridge - AI x Fintech
14 August 2025

Internship Project for DocuBridge, a VC-backed fintech startup from SF.

HUVTSP 2025
14 August 2025

Finishing the Harvard Undergraduate Ventures Tech Summer Program.

Agentic News Sentiment Analyzer
22 April 2025

Capstone project for the Google 5-day Generative AI intensive course.

Verizon PIE Consulting Challenge
3 March 2025

Recommendation deck for Verizon: private 5G for manufacturing.

LiDAR Person Detection CNN
24 January 2025

One of my projects as an intern at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Smart Traffic Light Simulation
17 January 2025

One of my projects as an intern at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

PID Trajectory Planning
14 January 2025

One of my projects as an intern at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Silver at international competition
30 November 2024

2nd place open age class of the international Luftfahrt Masters in Berlin.

Transfer Learning with CNNs
26 November 2024

Experimenting with transfer learning in PyTorch.

Knowledge Distillation in CNNs
14 November 2024

Experimenting with different techniques of knowledge distillation in CNNs.

ANN driven robot with no libraries
13 November 2024

Reinforcement learning ANN from scratch with no libraries, just pure math.

Gold at 2 national judo competitions
9 November 2024

My best competition performance in 2024.

Dealing with limited data in ANNs
26 October 2024

How to combat limited and noisy data in neural networks.

Grappling seminar with legend Gokor
9 September 2024

BJJ seminar with UFC-trainer Gokor Chivichyan.

Buildspace S5 2024 - Cenabot
30 August 2024

Autonomous food delivery robot for the last season of buildspace.

Finishing Harvard's CS50AI Course
4 August 2024

Completed Harvard's CS50AI Course on AI, ML, DL, and algorithms.

CNN for labelling traffic signs
3 August 2024

Traffic sign CNN detection on the GTSRB dataset.

Bronze at international competition
9 June 2024

3rd place at international judo competition (over 850 competitors).

Microsoft Consulting Challenge
6 June 2024

Recommendation deck for Microsoft Azure: Modular datacenters.

Comma.ai Calibration Challenge
25 May 2024

Predicting car movement in videos with a CNN.

Sanavo
7 May 2024

Moonshot Team Challenge: Nanogels for braincancer drug delivery.

Autonomous Car Simulation
18 March 2024

Neural network driven autonomous car simulation with no libraries.

Google Consulting Challenge
16 December 2023

Recommendations for Google internal communication.

Global Hackathon Finalists
14 October 2023

Global virtual hackathon — finalists.

Ingenieurbüro Leupold
26 July 2022

Family construction business website.