Jannik Wiedenhaupt

MSc. in Data Science, Columbia University.

Data Scientist, Consultant, and curious about Climate Tech and generative AI

About Me.

I'm an interdisciplinary data scientist working at the intersection of business, technology, and AI.

My passion is to build a sustainable economy that can continuously reduce the required resources. I developed transformers to understand landcover, built a tool to make climate science more accessible, and researched the drivers and components of businesses.

I currently work at QuantumBlack, a machine learning consultancy. My work combines solving complex business problems, developing deep neural networks, and implementing large-scale data infrastructures.

I studied Management and Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich to learn about solving technical business problems and entrepreneurship. Afterward, I completed an MS in Data Science with a focus on deep learning at Columbia University to solidify my technical understanding and drive technological products forward myself.

Projects

Climate Shell

Satellite Data + GPT-3. A web app that enables policy-makers and journalists to gather live satellite data using only natural language.

Blog Article

Species Identification

Multimodal computer vision transformer that predicts which species might live in the biome shown on a satellite image given the image and geographic data of the area.

GitHub

Flexify

Product and start-up for digital hotel solutions. Flexify offers fast and easy extensions of hotel reservations. The cleaning schedule is automatically adapted to guarantee flexibility and to reduce the time hotel rooms sit empty.

Demo Video

Donation Web Platform

Website to donate to social and climate projects by the non-profit Zukunftschreiben e.V. The website and server were built using the MERN stack (Mongo, Express.js, React.js, Node.js). We created CI/CD pipelines using Heroku, Gitlab, and Vercel.

GitHub

Research

One-Shot FaceNet using GAN-based Augmentations

Trained a FaceNet-based neural network that recognizes people on images using only one real example image and multiple GAN-generated augmentations of that person.

GitHub

Filter Bubble Mitigation in Recommender Systems

Simulated a recommender system under different ranking functions to measure how users' interests change over time when they see content that might oppose their previous interests.

GitHub

Cardiac Risk Prediction from Pulse Waves

Developed a neural network to predict the left ventricular mass index (LVMI) which is a common indicator of cardiac risk. I used an RNN for pulse waves and XGBoost for tabular data. Research with Vira Behnam at the Sia Lab.

Value Creation in AI Start-Ups - A Taxonomy for Business Models

Created a novel framework for AI-based business models (BMs). Analyzed the BMs of >100 start-ups and identified 6 new archetypes and market and novel insights. Research with Prof. Welpe at TUM.

Blog Article

Education

2021-2022

M.Sc. Data Science
Columbia University

Master's degree to specialize in statistical modeling, deep learning, and data management. Research on using deep learning to predict cardiac risk at Prof. Sam Sia's lab.

Specialization: Deep Learning

Achievements: EGSC Scholarship, PDL Fellowship, Effective Altruism Fellowship

2017-2021

B.Sc. Management and Technology
Technical University of Munich

Bachelor's degree focusing on the intersection of management functions and technical challenges.

Specialization: Computer Science

Achievements: Dean's List, Top 5%, German Academic Scholarship, TUMfast Scholarship, Think Digital Fellowship

2019-2021

M.Hns. Technology Management Center for Digital Technology and Management

Joint Degree from LMU and TUM and part of the Bavarian Elite Network and known as the leading entrepreneurial education program in Germany.

Specialization: Product Management and Web Development

Achievements: Member of CDTM Climate Club

2019

Semester Abroad
University of New South Wales

Semester abroad to take classes on Database Systems, Trading, Marketing Analytics and Big Data.

Get in Touch

New York

jannik.wiedenhaupt@outlook.com