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IAC 2026 — Paper Presentation

International Astronautical Congress

Presenting visual navigation research for planetary surfaces using 3DGS SLAM and hyperspectral fusion.

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EHL Zürich — Temporal AI & Anomaly Detection

European Hackathon League / ETH Agentic Systems Lab

Three space missions, two billion measurements — can a language model detect ESA satellite anomalies? Built a custom TimeNet connector, fine-tuned OpenTSLM with LoRA on Llama 3.2 1B across 8× H200 GPUs. Detected 11 of 13 anomaly events; a simple extreme-value baseline matched the model and caught more windows. Not the clean AI-wins story, but the useful one. Finished 4th in challenge, 3rd overall — Grand Final in Munich next.

EHL Munich — Agentic Insurance Hackathon

European Hackathon League / QuantCo

17 teams, 100 rounds of blind insurance pricing — same claim, policy, and damage report every 12 minutes. Overpaid 139 line items before we noticed the payoff asymmetry; a laptop nobody turned off overwrote a good submission with zeros in a triple-weighted round. €858,317 left on the table, nothing in our system ever complained. Came 9th — but posted the best net margin of all 17 teams over the final seventeen rounds once we rebuilt around measurement instead of models.

Flight Control Team Member

Austrian Space Forum (OeWF)

In-training volunteer for AMADEE-2027, a Martian analog mission. Authoring Data Management Workflow Definitions and Guidelines; formalising operational data and communication interfaces across Flight Crew, Ground Operations, and Mission Support Center following ICD conventions consistent with ECSS space engineering practice.

Analog Astronaut — EVA Lead

Aaka Space Studio (India's First Civilian Crew)

Selected for India's first civilian analog astronaut crew — a six-day simulated lunar surface mission in the extreme desert of Dholavira, Gujarat, one of Earth's closest analogs to lunar conditions. Served as EVA Lead: planned, coordinated, and executed surface operations under resource-constrained, isolated habitat conditions.

Software Engineer

Sereact, Stuttgart

Real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and analytics platform for robotic manipulation systems across sites in Europe and the US. Python FastAPI services on message queues, Next.js/TypeScript frontend, containerised on GCP Cloud Run and Vercel.

Mission Control Officer

World's Biggest Analog (OeWF)

Remote Science Support Task Manager for the world's biggest analog space mission — 17 habitat sites running simultaneously across the globe. Managed the Daily Activity Matrix: live operational tracking across timezones, science teams, and mission timelines over eight days.

MSc Graduated — Grade 1.8

University of Stuttgart

Graduated with distinction. Thesis on visual planetary navigation accepted.

Master Thesis — HyperLoop

DLR-RMC, Munich

HyperLoop: developed a SLAM framework extending 3DGS SLAM (LoopSplat) with hyperspectral imaging to improve loop closure detection in planetary-like terrains. Evaluated on DLR Moon-Mars Outdoor Test Site datasets.

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Research Assistant — Semantic SLAM

SIR Lab, University of Stuttgart

Set up and analysed Semantic SLAM pipelines — Kimera, Hydra, and Chronos — on EuRoC datasets and in-lab collected data on Linux with ROS at the Socially Intelligent Robotics Lab.

Full Stack Developer

Mercedes-Benz AG, Sindelfingen

Working student at the Virtual Reality Center (CoC VR/AR/XR). Built a complex web app end-to-end: Django + PostgreSQL backend, React/TypeScript/Tailwind frontend, RESTful APIs, booking system with role-based access, and Linux server setup with Nginx and Gunicorn.

MSc CS — Autonomous Systems

University of Stuttgart

Started Masters programme. Focus on robotics, state estimation, and sensor fusion.

SDE Frontend → SDE2

Suraasa, India

UI components for the Suraasa teacher training platform. Built a proctoring system using Web APIs for online assessments. Designed an event-driven calendar with react-fullcalendar.