Matthias Lenga

Director Applied Machine Learning | Bayer Radiology R&D Software Development

Germany

About

Experience

  • Bayer (5 yrs 9 mos)
    • Director Applied Machine Learning
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

      Current areas of work: predictive maintenance for injector systems, automated medical data quality control, IQ metrics for MRI reconstruction

    • Head of Imaging & Machine Learning
      Nov 2021 - Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Areas of work: automation in data quality control workflows, e.g. multi-modal models (LMMs, bi-modal transformers) for PII/PHI detection, content-based medical image/video retrieval, automated DICOM series labelling, automated medical image/video deduplication, vision embeddings, metrics for medical image similarly and quality assessment, generative models (GANs, diffusions) for MRI synthesis

    • Head of Decision Science & Advanced Analytics for Radiology
      Nov 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Leading a data science group specialized in machine learning, medical imaging and medical audiology. Broad portfolio of projects in the areas of Radiology, Ophthalmology and Oncology. Our contributions include fundamental research, generative modelling in the field of contrast media and ML development for companion diagnostic systems.

  • Research Scientist (Machine Learning) at Philips
    Sep 2017 - Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Scientist at Philips Research Department for Digital Imaging. Working on machine learning methods for clinical imaging products in various modalities (CT, 3D ultrasound, X-ray) covering applications in musculoskeletal imaging, echocardiography, fetal screening and chest X-ray analysis. Research on continual learning and vision embeddings in the presence of domain shifts.

  • Research Associate at The University of Kiel
    Oct 2014 - Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Research at the interface of probability theory, optimization and financial mathematics. My work focused on investigating a duality relation between certain diffusion type stochastic control and convex optimization problems on topological pairings. Numerical applications of semi-infinite linear programming and PDEs. Supervision of courses and student projects (mathematics/mathematical finance).

  • Research Internship (Machine Learning) at Zuse Institute Berlin
    Jun 2015 - Aug 2015 · 3 mos

  • Teaching Assistant at The University of Kiel
    2013 - 2014 · 1 yr