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MEng

Cornell University

Computer Science

Exchange

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Computer Science

BS

Technical University of Munich

Information Systems

Postbacc Research Assistant

Santa Fe Institute

Investigating and improving capabilities of current AI systems in multimodal settings on abstraction and reasoning tasks, collaborating with Professor Melanie Mitchell.

Graduate Teaching and Research Specialist

Cornell University

Created and graded exams for the course Introduction to Machine Learning.

Project Associate for iOS App Development

Siemens

Developed a decentralized decision-making application for autonomous agents in Swift and built an auctioning algorithm under the strategy pattern to optimally match agents with clients.

Responsible AI Engineering Intern

PwC

Integrated and adapted XAI libraries (SHAP, LIME) into a unified assessment engine compatible with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn. Developed and presented a project white paper at BitKom Big Data & AI Summit Berlin 2022.

Financial Technologies SWE Intern

Deutsche Bank

Created and maintained microservices with Python and Java (SpringBoot) on Fabric (RedHat OpenShift). Migrated and analyzed financial databases using FlywayDB, JDBC, JPA, and PostgreSQL.

Research Assistant

Helmholtz Center Munich

Developed neural networks for classification and clustering of over 20 million single cell samples using Python (TensorFlow, Keras, Pandas) and created an autoencoder for generating synthetic diabetic cell samples.

Citegeist: Automated Generation of Related Work Analysis on the arXiv Corpus

ArXiv Preprint. Authors: Claas Beger*, Carl-Leander Henneking*.

Decoding Human Preferences in Alignment: An Improved Approach to Inverse Constitutional AI

ArXiv Preprint. Authors: Carl-Leander Henneking*, Claas Beger*.

CoCoNUT: Structural Code Understanding does not fall out of a tree

LLM4Code Workshop at ICSE2025. Authors: Claas Beger, Saikat Dutta.

Memento: Note-Taking for Your Future Self

ArXiv Preprint. Authors: Chao Wan, Albert Gong, Mihir Mishra, Carl-Leander Henneking, Claas Beger, Kilian Q. Weinberger.

A Neuroscience-Inspired Dual-Process Model of Compositional Generalization

ArXiv Preprint. Authors: Alex Noviello*, Claas Beger*, Jacob Groner, Kevin Ellis, Weinan Sun.

Do AI Models Perform Human-like Abstract Reasoning Across Modalities?

ArXiv Preprint. Authors: Claas Beger, Ryan Yi, Shuhao Fu, Arseny Moskvichev, Sarah W. Tsai, Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Melanie Mitchell.