Mikio L. Braun
Machine Learning / Intelligent Data Analysis Group
Mikio L. Braun
PostDoc
I've left academia in 2015 and since worked at Zalando, and GetYourGuide, and am now working as an independent consultant to help companies and people put Machine Learning into practice. If you want to connect with me, follow me on Twitter or connect with me on Linkedin.
Brief Resumé
I received pre-diplomas (~B.Sc.) in Mathematics and Computer Science and a diploma (~M.Sc.) in Computer Science from the University of Bonn. From 2000 to 2004, I was a research assistant and Ph.D. student in the CVPR group headed by Prof. Buhmann at the University of Bonn. In May 2004, I have joined the Intelligent Data Analysis Group headed by Klaus-Robert Müller at the Fraunhofer Institute FIRST in Berlin, Germany. In January 2007, I moved to the Technical University of Berlin branch of the IDA Group. In 2010, I co-founded TWIMPACT, a start-up company focused on real-time analysis of social media data.Research Interests
Current Interests
- social media analysis, data science
- reinforcement learning, adaptive control
- machine learning, statistical learning theory
- kernel methods
- feature extraction
- machine learning for multimedia data
Past Interests
- clustering, stability based model selection
- approximation theory for eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- programming languages for machine learning
- some bioinformatics, brain-computer interface
"Political" Interests
- open source software for machine learning
- interoperatibility of ML software
- reproducibility of ML research
Projects
Here is a short list of the projects I've already worked on. ("Worked on" means that I was paid by these projects, and/or was responsible for the part of the project of the respective institution.)University of Bonn (1995-2004)
- Retina Implant project Building an adaptive neuronal implant for people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, a disease which ultimately leads to blindness.
- emilea e-stat A project aimed at building an environment for e-learning. The university of Bonn was a content-provider for machine learning.
- Teaching duties.
Fraunhofer Institute FIRST (2004-2007)
- A project together with Daimler-Chrysler to measure the amount of mental workload of a car driver using EEG.
- ADDnet Finding new methods for detecting proteinurea in an early stage using bioinformatics. This was an EU project headed by the University of Helsinki
- FaSor An extension of the earlier project with Daimler-Chrysler. The goal is to interpret the driver as a sensory system.
- THESEUS A large project funded by the Bundeswirtschaftsministerium. I was responsible for designing the part of Fraunhofer FIRST. Our task will be to automatically extract semantic annotation for images.
Technical Universtiy of Berlin (2007-)
Technically, my position is paid for by the university (Haushaltsstelle), so I'm not on the payroll of any specific project.
- Teaching duties.
- A bit of system administration.
- ALICE - Autonomous learning in complex environments. Joint project with Siemens and idalab GmbH with applications to wind turbine control.
TWIMPACT (2010-)
Twimpact, our start-up-on-the-side, is concerned with real-time social media stream analysis.