Martin-Philipp Simpson-Irsch

Educational Range

I strongly believe that educational range prepares for life-long learning, quick adaption to new ideas and the ability to transfer knowledge and methods across domains. By the way, check out how I am applying my educational range in my job.

MSc
Artificial Intelligence

The University of Edinburgh

• Acquired comprehensive knowledge of machine learning fundamentals (Bayesian Regression/Gaussian Process, Backprop, Imbalanced Data, Unsupervised learning)
• Architected deep learning models (CNN, GAN, LSTM), e.g. to explore scaled down world models
• EdIntelligence Event Coordinator: AI Career Fair

In my dissertation, I worked on noisy Time-Series data collected from real-world human activity scenarios via an Android app. I used Deep Learning (CNN, GAN) and semi-supervised learning to train a robust classifier using both labelled and unlabelled data. My dissertation was selected among the top 20 of my cohort and got published.

MSc
Energy Engineering

RWTH Aachen University

• Focus on electrified powertrains and control systems engineering
• Thesis: Designed a model-based observer control algorithm to determine the temperature of directly cooled electrical machines at Audi
• Springorum commemorative coin for achieving MSc with distinction

MSc
Automotive Engineering

Tsinghua University, Beijing

• Focus on Autonomous Driving and Control Design (Optimal Control, ACC, MPC)
• Thesis: Design of a Fuel Efficient Adaptive Cruise Control Strategy (Presentation)
• Extra curricular: Developed gamification-inspired English lessons to encourage active use of the English language for children aged 8-15

Research Scholar

University of California, Davis, CA

• Classes in Control Systems, Advanced Fluid Dynamics and Psychology
• Research Project on Efficiency Improvement of Turbomachinery by flow injection control strategy
• Publication and presentation of research paper at AIAA SciTech 2015 in Orlando

Professional experience

Generalists may take a little longer to find their path in life, but they are more creative, can make connections between diverse fields that specialists cannot. This makes them more innovative and, ultimately, more impactful.

Bosch Home Comfort Group

Group Leader Sales Technical Back Office

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with people of equal and greater talent than themselves.

Responsibilities

• Leading a talented team which is responsible for designing complex HVAC systems for our customers
• Fostering a strong, collaborative team environment while driving individual growth and development
• Make my team shine by leveraging my knowledge of efficient processes, AI, and software engineering to drive continuous improvements

Bosch Home Comfort Group

Executive Assistant to Member of the Board of Management resp. for Engineering, Manufacturings, Logistics & Quality/IT (COO/CTO)

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Responsibilities

• Driving strategic initiatives in the office of the CTO & COO
• Established, defined, and coordinated Home Comfort's annual strategic planning cycle
• Prepared high-quality documents tailored to various stakeholders (C-Level, External, Internal)

Bosch

Junior Managers Programme in R&D for IoT + AI

For products to deliver business results, it’s all about solving problems, not implementing features.

Rotations

• Sub-Project Lead in Embedded AI & MLOps
• Project Lead Next Gen Room HMI & Control Unit

Audi

Associate Research Scientist

Treading a wide-roaming, disorderly path of experimentation may not always bring instant results. But it may just be the best route to greatness in the end.

• Contributed to cross-functional initiatives aimed at improving the customer journey for electric car owners, resulting two patents
• Developed an OPL-Excel tool for project progress tracking, featuring pivot table-based performance evaluation and automated agenda and minutes creation routines in VBA
• Implemented reinforcement learning algorithms for controlling battery temperature in a GT-Power simulation environment using a Python interface

Contact

Please feel free to contact me. Typically, I am most active on Linkedin but feel free to reach out by any of the below listed means.

• Linkedin
• GitHub
• Twitter

Projects

A quiz app

A neat colab trick

function KeepClicking(){
    console.log("Clicking");
    document.querySelector("colab-connect-button").click()
    }
setInterval(KeepClicking,60000)
                

Fixing the My Drive problem

!mkdir MyDrive
!mount --bind /content/drive/My\ Drive /content/MyDrive
%cd /content/MyDrive
                

Elements

i = 0;

while (!deck.isInOrder()) {
    print 'Iteration ' + i;
    deck.shuffle();
    i++;
}

print 'It took ' + i + ' iterations to sort the deck.';