Activities

Johannes is a research associate at the Applied AI in Services Lab within the Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (IISM) and the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI). His interests include:

•  Foundation models
•  Data-centric AI
•  Few-shot learning
•  Open-set recognition
•  Human-centered artificial intelligence 

 
Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in writing a bachelor's or master's thesis on one of these topics.

Curriculum Vitae

Johannes graduated from KIT with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management with a focus on machine learning, statistics, and optimization. During his master’s degree, he studied Information Systems and Computer Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal. He authored his thesis at ETH Zurich at the Chair of Management Information Systems. Throughout his master's studies, Johannes worked on real-world machine learning implementations (e.g., computer vision, speech recognition, named entity recognition) during internships at Porsche Motorsport, d-fine, and EnBW AG. At the beginning of his Ph.D. program, he worked as an Affiliated Research Member at ETH Zurich, where he researched emotion dynamics on social media. In October 2022, Johannes joined IBM Research as a Visiting Researcher and since then has been working on geospatial foundation models and the segmentation of natural hazards on satellite images. Johannes is part of a research collaboration between IBM Research and NASA, where he is responsible for fine-tuning geospatial foundation models to downstream applications.