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TIM LUKA HORSTMANN  
Email: lukahorstmann@gmx.de  
Website: horstmann.tech | LinkedIn: TimLukaHorstmann | GitHub: luka512
Birthday: 05.12.2000


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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.

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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  

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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  

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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  

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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)  

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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)  

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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  

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Last updated: June 2025