Thoughts about Intelligent Machines

... and Things that Aspire to Become it!


"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." Edsger Dijkstra

Christian König

Computer Scientist, Philosopher

30 Second Summary

Technology is not a mean in itself, but a medium to accelerate change, express ideas and to motivate desires and dreams. I think about bounds, borders and possibilities of technologies and pursue projects that tackle the intersection of human actions and machine intelligence.

Focus Skills

Machine Learning

A field of great prospects and fascinating ideas - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence already change our economical, social and technical landscape and human interactions with technology. As key technologies they will continue to be decisive in the near and far future.

IT Security

As Technology gets more and more complex and our lifestyle strongly interconnected with digital systems, it's vital to control and contain risks related to theses systems and prevent exploitations of its use by malicious actors. IT Security is therefore a vital ingredient in the development and deployment of contemporary technology.

Web Technologies

The massive interconnectedness of people and everyday things through technology poses great challenges - socially, intellectually and technologically. We face great effort in order for IoT to be a success and not a desaster. Distributed Systems

Technical Expertise

  • Javascript
  • PHP
  • Java
  • Python
  • HTML/CSS
  • Git
  • Jira
  • LaTeX

Experience

ESG Eletronik-Systeme

Software Developer - Web Application Development

Since Jan. 2017

I am part of a small team that develops and maintains a Web-based Project-Management-Tool. My work includes programming in the fundamental Web Development Technologies, frontend- as well as backend-side, requirements engineering and internal project coordination.

Teaching Assistant (Various Courses) at TU Darmstadt

- Parallel Programming

- IT Security

- Computer Networks

- Introduction to Computer Science

2015 - 2017

During the last 3 semesters, I worked as a teaching assistant in the aforementioned courses. I was responsible for organizing and teaching practise classes in addition to correcting class submissions.

Freelance Interpreter

Various Employments at Frankfurt International Fair

2013 - 2015

Based on my background and language skills I worked on several occasions as a freelance interpreter and assistant at various international fairs in Frankfurt a. Main, helping with translational issues in English, Italien and German.

Education

Technische Universität Darmstadt

B.Sc. Computer Science

2015-2017

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

B.Sc. Computer Science

2014-2015

Universität Heidelberg

Mag.Art. Philosophy and History

2006-2011

Projects

Explainable Machine Learning Systems

Machine Learning System are often black box solutions after a model is learned. This is not desirable in many contexts. This project is linked to my ongoing Bachelor thesis at TU Darmstadt and will be deveoped during the next months.

Privacy-preserving Machine Learning

Most classification methods do not offer any privacy-preserving qualities, neither for the query-giver nor the model owner. This seems to be inappropriate for both parties as there is much value in the private information of a customer as well as in the prediction model. This project aims to work out an overview of privacy-preserving techniqes and to test implementations.

Android Machine Learning Application

Development of an AI-based Android App that learns from the users device interactions and can predict possible future actions in order to optimize device interaction. This project is in a conceptual stage.

Christian König — If you are hiring: Contact me!