Lukas Balles

I’m a machine learning scientist and engineer. I am based in Heidelberg, Germany, and I work at Bioptimus.

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Short Bio

I studied Mathematics (B.Sc.) and Scientific Computing (M.Sc.) at Heidelberg University and spent some time as a visiting student at Tsinghua University in Beijing. I did my Master’s thesis research project at (what is now) the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. After that, I obtained a PhD in machine learning at the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Tuebingen. I was supervised by Prof. Philipp Hennig. During my PhD, I interned in the Google Brain team in Montreal and at Google AI in Zurich. From 2020 to 2023, I worked as an Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services in Berlin. From 2023 to 2026, I held a position as Senior AI Researcher at Aleph Alpha.

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