Johannes Roth

PhD candidate in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience | Looking to transition to industry Data Science or MLE positions starting September 2026.

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

About

Looking to transition to industry positions in Data Science or Machine Learning teams starting September 2026. PhD candidate at MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences - researching improve cost- and time effectiveness of data collection for large-scale fMRI studies of the human visual system. I studied Computer Science (M.Sc.) and Business Information Systems (B.Sc.).

Experience

  • PHD Student at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Research Assistent (ML in medicine) at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig
    Jun 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr

    Worked on ML models for medical use cases: - Built and improved models for automatically segmenting regions of interest in human brains - Worked on improving state of the art in uncertainty-aware prostate cancer mortality prediction

  • Full-stack Developer at Kimetric UG
    Oct 2020 - May 2021 · 8 mos

    Full-stack development of two websites for the academic sector: - Configuration of hosting using NGINX and gUnicorn on Linux - Developed Django backend for site and user management and frontend with HTML, CSS and JS

  • Data Scientist (working student) at CHECK24 Vergleichsportal
    Oct 2019 - May 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Lead development of an image processing micro-service: - Data acquisition and cleaning for product-specific use cases - Training and evaluation of ML vision models (deduplication, retrieval, classification, upscaling, quality assessment) - Backend development for serving ML models with Python (Flask, gUnicorn) Worked on improving search results: - Bayesian hyperparameter optimization of recommender system - Training and evaluation of ranking models Ran statistical analysis and prepared results for stakeholders: - Outlier detection for product prices - Statistical analysis and visualization of time series data I also briefly worked on the backend team, writing API code with PHP and Go.

  • Data Scientist (working student) at blackbee / Webdata Solutions
    Oct 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Lead development of a product image retrieval pipeline: - Crawling and cleaning of massive image datasets for model training - Training of models for image representations, image segmentation and text classification (Tensorflow, PyTorch)