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

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Impact-driven computer scientist with a strong foundation in AI, particularly ML and NLP. Holds an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science with Distinction from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Data & AI with Highest Honors — Mention Très Bien from Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Combines rigorous research with applied experience at Hi! PARIS, McKinsey, Amazon and Continental, 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 – Sep 2025
	•	Grade 4.0 / 4.0 (Highest Distinction — Mention Très Bien)
	•	Ranked #1 in core AI courses, incl. #1/196 in “Machine & Deep Learning” (19.9 / 20)
	•	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 (all with Distinction)
	•	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
Research Assistant (Machine Learning & NLP) — University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK | Dec 2025 – Mar 2026
	•	Developing and applying novel NLP/ML models to collect, analyze, and explain financial regulations

Machine Learning Research Engineer Intern (received full-time return offer) — Hi! PARIS Research Center & École Polytechnique
Paris, France | Apr 2025 – Aug 2025
	•	Text-to-Speech and NLP research on generating natural-sounding French speech (supervisor: Prof. Eric Moulines)
	•	Led “Europeanization” of CosyVoice2, building a SOTA zero-shot TTS model for FR/DE (first-author, ICASSP 2026)
	•	Built a multi-agent research assistant for IP Paris (LangGraph), incl. local RAG and Gemini web research

Fellow Intern (full-time return offer) — McKinsey & Company
Munich, Germany | May 2023 – Jul 2023
	•	Advised a leading European automotive supplier on a multiyear sustainable transformation program
	•	Produced financial analyses and risk assessments presented to CEO, CFO & supervisory board

Business Intelligence Intern (full-time return offer) — Amazon
London, UK | Oct 2022 – Apr 2023
	•	Led inbound logistics project for Amazon’s PanEu surface network (≈ $38 M annual impact)
	•	Resolved transportation disruptions via QuickSight dashboard atop Redshift ETL from multiple data sources

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, Ansible
Data Science/ML PyTorch, Transformers, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Ollama, llama.cpp, Qwen-Agent
Tools/Platforms Git, Weights & Biases, HPC (SLURM), Docker, FastAPI, AWS, Redshift, QuickSight

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SELECTED PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS
T-REX: Table-Refute-or-Entail eXplainer — Institut Polytechnique de Paris | 2025
Accepted at 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

Improving French Synthetic Speech Quality via SSML Prosody Control — Hi! PARIS | 2025
Accepted at ICNLSP 2025 — https://horstmann.tech/ssml-prosody-control/
	•	First end-to-end French SSML prosody-control pipeline; two cascaded QLoRA-tuned Qwen-2.5-7B for breaks + values
	•	Tested on novel 14h corpus: 99.2% F1 (breaks); 25–40% lower MAE on pitch/rate/volume; MOS 3.20→3.87 (15/18 prefer)
	•	Tech: Python, Qwen-2.5-7B (QLoRA), Whisper Timestamped, Auditok, Demucs, Azure TTS

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; > 9,000 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
	•	Distinction (87%); strong cross-domain generalization; ↑ 37 % ROUGE vs baselines
	•	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 (product 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 — tuition exemption, annual allowance, fully-funded PhD offer
2022  ContiBestenEhrung — Top 25 of 1500+ dual students nationwide; Academic Excellence Bonus (€270)
2021  Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes — < 0.3 % of students; funded BSc, MPhil & MSc
2019  Deutschlandstipendium; e-fellows.net Scholarship; DMV Prize; Best Graduate in NRW

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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 & Cambridge German Society
Mentoring McKinsey College/Firsthand, BCG LINK/Emerald, Bain Spark
Volunteering First saxophonist – symphonic wind orchestra; founding board member, Junge Union Erwitte
Interests Artificial Intelligence, Space Travel, Piano, Rowing, Jogging, Table Tennis, Tennis, Hiking, Skiing, Travelling

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Weitere Informationen:
- Während meiner Zeit in meiner Heimatstadt Erwitte habe ich über verschiedene Zeiträume hinweg Fußball, Tennis, Tischtennis, und Baseball im Verein gespielt. Ich war sogar Tischtennis-Trainer und habe damit Geld verdient.
- Ich habe auch eine längere Zeit während meiner Schulzeit Nachhilfe gegeben (in verschiedenen Fächern, aber insbesondere in Mathe).

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Last updated: November 2025