Tobias Jacob
Artificial intelligence and machine learning researcher
Award-winning full-stack developer, ranging from PCBs into the cloud. Studied a mixture of electrical and mechanical engineering for the bachelor's and switched to computer science for the master's to develop a throughout understanding of technology.
Projects
A humanoid robot controlled by a virtual reality headset
A STM32 based USB HID game controller with 10 analog inputs
Utilized reinforcement learning to obtain walking policies for Atlas
Developed a YoloV5 based object tracker to determine a vessels gps location from surveillance footage. This project was part of a competition and placed 3rd out of 41 participating teams and was awarded $35000.
A system control software implemented on a Raspberry Pi
A booking tool for a DJ Agency
Employment
- Software & Electronics Engineer
Neura Robotics is a startup that focuses on building cognitive robots, ranging from cobots to humanoids
- Various topics regarding the software and electronics for 4NE-1
- Controls
- Various PCBs
- Ethercat & Firmware
- Phd student
A renommated Institute for humanoid Robotics, particularily known for the ARMAR Series of Robots
- Firmware development for EtherCat Slaves
- Assembly of the new Armar 7 robot
- Teleoperation mode for Armar 6
- Research of Human Robot Collaboration using offline reinforcement learning, large language models and computer vision
- Strategy Analyst
Mensch Cologne Capital is an investmentbanking startup that develops machine learnign based trading strategies for interest rate swaps.
- Researching machine learning based methods for interest swap rate prediction
- Student researcher
IHMC is one of the world's leading research institues for robotics.
- Trained a swarm of drones to work together in a decentralized team to win a capture the flag game
- Used reinforcement learning to train a walking model for the Atlas humanoid robot
- Teaching assistant
My teaching assistance ship is tied to a student-fee waiver, which made it possible for me to study in the United States.
- Grading of multiple courses, including Artificial Intelligence, Discrete Mathematics and Java.
- Student researcher
e.GO is an electric car start-up founded by professor Schuh, that innovates transportation using autonomous driving and traffic-on-demand.
- Utilized reinforcement learning for autonomous driving
- Student researcher
IKA researches new methods for the mobility of the future.
- Development of a Website for a dataset
- Implementing the V2X communation utilities for the test vehicle
- Sport-Entertainer
I worked in a hotel for TUI for half a year in Crete, Greece. Why? Before I started studying, I decided to work in something that is completely off my main career track and pushes me out of my comfort zone.
- Taking care of the well-being of the guests by organizing sport activities.
- Performing in the hotel's dance- and comedy-shows
- Supervising children in the kindergarten.
- Intern
Edison Fathepour GmbH stamps parts for the car industry. Here I completed my pre-study internship required for studying business engineering at RWTH Aachen.
- Different activities for primary, forming, and thermal manufacturing processes.
- Student researcher
FKIE researches how to improve the ease of use of computers.
- Development of an augmented realtiy application to display the employee database in a more organized manner.
- Developer
SOVAmed GmbH developes computer vision software for hospitals.
- Development of the user interface components for the Mac OS application
- Optimizing the process of creating the medical documentation
Awards
ICPC Regionals Div. 2
3 / 33Competitive Programming competition
HackTheMachine (Data Science)
1 / 43- $15000Malware classification challenge, tabular data learning based on lgbm and gradient histogram boosting
HackTheMachine (Data Science)
5 / 20Natural language processing including sentiment classification and information extraction
AI tracks at sea
3 / 41- $35000Development of a new method to calibrate the camera from the ships' GPS coordinate and used YoloV5 for tracking
National Cyber Leauge
28 / 6011Cybersecurity challenges
Education
GPA 3.93 (best: 4.0 - worst: 1.0)
- President of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics research group.
- Received the outstanding graduate student award.
- Curricular Practical Training (CPT) at IHMC.
GPA 2.5 (best: 1.0 - worst: 5.0)
- Thesis: Artificial intelligence for analyzing the workspace of robotic manipulators
GPA 2.0 (best: 1.0 - worst: 5.0)
- Thesis: Deep Learning for Analysis of Video Recordings of Mice in Open Field Experiments
- Received the Deans List Award for graduating within the best 5% of my class
Publications
Tobias Jacob, Daniel Duran, Trey Pfeiffer, Micael Vignati, Matthew Johnson (2023). Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Capture-The-Flag Game Behavior. Intellisys 2023.
Tobias Jacob, Raffaele Galliera, Muddasar Ali, Sikha Bagui (2021). Marine Vessel Tracking using a Monocular Camera. Delta 2021.
Marcin Kopaczka, Tobias Jacob, Lisa Ernst, Mareike Schulz, René Tolba, Dorit Merhof (2020). Robust Open Field Rodent Tracking Using a Fully Convolutional Network and a Softargmax Distance Loss. Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2020.