About Me
Hello! I’m Michael. I am a seasoned professional with a passion for building and innovation. With a Ph.D. in Computer Vision from ETH Zurich and industry experience from Google and as a co-founder of Cerrion, and with over a decade of experience in Python programming, I have a track record of delivering high-quality software. At Cerrion, a YCombinator Startup, I served as the CTO and led a talented team of six engineers in backend development and computer vision. As a reseacher, I have published 30+ papers with 2600+ citations.
Currently, I am a Principal Applied Scientist at Zalando Switzerland, working on the topic of Fashion Discovery, with a focus on multimodal retrieval and our LLM-based assistant.
My research interests lay in continual learning, multimodal foundation models and large language models.
For more detail on my background, please refer to my CV.