Hi, I'm Benedikt Engel. I'm currently pursuing my Master's degree in Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Top-tier technical university in Germany: kit.edu, with a strong focus on Machine Learning, Data Science, and Robotics.
I thrive at the intersection of applied AI and software engineering. Working alongside my studies as a working studentA working student is a student who, in addition to their full-time studies at a university, is employed by a company on a more-than-marginal basis., my journey has taken me from developing robotics software at our Robotics Institute High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab (H²T), to building automated data pipelines as a Research Analyst at Horváth & PartnersTop-tier German Management Consulting: Horváth, to my current role engineering scalable, AI-driven applications as a Full-Stack Developer at LexaruSuccessful Legal-Tech Start-Up: Lexaru.
Whether I'm researching contextual multi-armed bandits, launching entrepreneurial side-projects like TableXAI, or designing fluid web architectures, I love building things. Let's make it happen!
I am always open to exchanging ideas. If you would like to discuss something, please don't hesitate to reach out!
Languages
- Python Used in: TableXAI, Sourcerer, RAG Chat, Sentiment Analysis, Fluxio, Tiny YoloV2
- Typescript Used in: Full Stack Developer @ Lexaru
- C++ Used in: B.Sc. Computer Science @ KIT
- Java Used in: B.Sc. Computer Science @ KIT
- Haskell Used in: B.Sc. Computer Science @ KIT
Frontend
- Svelte Used in: Full Stack Developer @ Lexaru
- Vue.js Used in: TableXAI MVP Web Service
Backend & DB
- PostgreSQL Used in: TableXAI Account Management
- MongoDB Used in: Various Web Projects
- Drizzle ORM Used in: Full Stack Developer @ Lexaru
- Chroma DB Used in: Ollama Mini RAG Chat Vector Storage
ML & Data
- PyTorch Used in: Tiny YoloV2 on Jetson Nano, Budgeted Contextual MAB
- TensorFlow Used in: Deep Learning Coursework
- PaddleOCR Used in: TableXAI Local Extraction Pipeline
- RAG Used in: Ollama Mini Chat System
Systems
- Linux Used in: H²T Lab Robotics, Jetson Nano Deployment
- MacOS Used as: Primary Development Environment
- Windows Used for: Everyday Tasks
- Docker Used in: Containerized Deployments & Local Dev
Experience & Projects
April 2026 - Present
Full Stack Developer @ LexaruDeveloping AI applications to automate workflows for authorities, engineering scalable architectures using Svelte, TypeScript, and Drizzle ORM.
June 2026 - June 2026
ML Hackathon: Sensor Data Classification @ AIMAT (KIT)Participated in a competitive university hackathon focused on classifying complex, heavily distorted sensor data using ResNet18 (preTrained then finetuned). Engineered features and trained a robust model under strict time constraints without using guided templates.
- Achieved >88% overall accuracy on the hidden test set, clearly outperforming the baseline.
- Techniques: Ensemlbe, TTA, Image Preprocessing, Data Augmentation
- Secured bonus placement based on model performance metrics.
April 2026 - August 2026
Seminar Paper on Regret Proofs of Multi Armed Bandit Algorithms @ IPD (KIT)Rederived wort-case regret bounds for the Upper Confidence Bound and Linear Upper Confidence Bound algorithms.
- Regret Proof for the (Linear) Upper Confidence Bound Algorithm, showing sub-linear Regret.
- Empirical evaluation on the Movielens 1M dataset using rejection sampling.
- Graded 1.0.
Oct 2025 - March 2026
Hardware efficient Offline Person Detection w/ Tiny YoloV2 on Jetson Nano @ CES (KIT)Trained, Fine-tuned and deployed Tiny YoloV2 for offline Person Detection on a Jetson Nano.
- Pretrained on ImageNet.
- Finetuned using ablation method with progressive unfreezing of layers, to preserve low level feature.
- Optimization using int8 and float16 Quantization with per Tensor Quantization.
- Graded 1.0.
Oct 2025 - Jan 2026
Founded TableXAI - Table extraction Web applicationExtract tables from images and PDFs using PaddleOCR and Mistral OCR.
- Complete user management and account management.
- Local extraction pipeline able to run on Server CPU.
- Mistral OCR for more complex tasks.
- https://tablexai.de
October 2025 - Present
M.Sc. Computer Science @ KITMaster's degree in Computer Science with focus on ML, Data Science and statistics.
Oct 2024 - April 2025
Bachelor Thesis @ IPD (KIT)Developed novel contextual multi-armed bandit algorithms under fixed budget constraints.
- Integrated Neural Networks, Gaussian Processes, and Ridge Regression into the decision-making loop.
- Graded 1.0.
April 2025 - April 2026
Research Analyst @ HorváthData-driven analysis with a focus on the automotive sector.
- Developed automated web scraping pipelines.
- Built interactive dashboards for sentiment analysis.
- Active market analysis and research
- First 7 month internship followed by 5 months as a working student.
April 2024 - August 2024
Seminar Paper on Software Sustainability @ SDQ (KIT)Review-Paper about impacts on software on the environment focusing on making software developmenent more environmentally friendly.
- Overview of negative impacts of software on the environment.
- Summary of Frameworks for efficient software devlopment, efficient cloud design, Cyber-foraging, Sustainable Reference Architectures and Green IT.
- Graded 1.7.
March 2023 - Oct 2024
Assistant Researcher @ H²T Lab (KIT)Co-founded and developed Fluxio, a web-based statechart editor designed to simplify robot programming for non-experts.
October 2021 - September 2025
B.Sc. Computer Science @ KITBachelor's degree in Computer Science with focus on theory, ML and math.