Final Year MSc Student in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics @ Heidelberg University

Exchanges @ the National University of Singapore and UC Berkeley
Prev. Work Experience @ QuantumBlack (McKinsey), Fraunhofer IAIS, German Aerospace Center | AI, NLP & Optimization
GPA: 1.0

I like building things. Especially if it involves GenAI and nice co-workers :)

📌 Currently exploring:

• Specialized LLMs
• Instruction Tuning
• Cuda Programming
• GPU Scheduling Algorithm Engineering

🔬 Previously at:

• Fraunhofer IAIS – Developing german medical foundation models.
• QuantumBlack, McKinsey – Developed a multivariate demand forecasting model yielding 7-figure business value.
• German Aerospace Center – Consulted on causal inference & LLM overlaps & with published research.
• BMW Group – Used Pyspark to optimize BMW's supply chain in times of gas supply shortages.

✍️ At the German Aerospace Center I also wrote about Causality: Medium Blog

• AI Mental Health Support - RAG-based mental health support with fine-tuned suicide risk prediction for high-risk interventions GitHub
• Scheduling Algorithms for reducing GPU Fragmentation - Implementing FGD and FirstFit for scheduling Kubernetes pods on nodes Github
• PubMed RAG – Trained on 100k+ scientific abstracts, reaching GPT-4-level performance locally. [GitHub]
• Knowledge Graphs with LLMs – Automated Wikipedia KG construction using open-source LLMs. GitHub]
• **Cuda Torch Extensions ** - Experimenting with custom cuda extensions for Pytorch Github
• ETH Transaction Graph ML - Deep learning on 79M+ Ethereum transactions [Publication]

🔗 More repos → GitHub

• MSc Scientific Computing – National University of Singapore & Heidelberg University (GPA: 1.1)
• BA & Exchange Semester – UC Berkeley (School of Information) & Zeppelin University (GPA: 1.1)
• Hans Multscher High School - Physics, Mathematics, Economics (GPA: 1.1)

🏆 Awards & Fellowships:

• DUO Singapore Fellowship for NUS
• Baden Württemberg Scholarship
• German Scholarship
• Entrepreneur Scholarship
• Lena Weiss Scholarship
• Gips Schüle Scholarship for UC Berkeley
• Best Thesis Award
• 1st Prize in a Startup Competition @ UC Berkeley

• I like to do UX (see here)
• Boxing
• Reading fantasy, Gabriel Allon novels or psychology-related non-fiction

💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kennethstyppa

Let’s connect & build! 🚀