Short CV

Florian Hettstedt, M.Sc., has been working as a research assistant at the Department of Intelligent Embedded Systems in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen since January 2025. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He then completed a Master's degree in Cyber Physical Systems at the same university in November 2023. This was followed by a year as a machine learning engineer at a start-up

Research

He is currently employed on the TransfAIr project. The main goal of the project is to develop and test transfer approaches
for artificial intelligence in the industry. The focus of the project will be on approaches for transferring learned knowledge to new problems (transfer learning), as well as approaches for transferring existing neural networks to different hardware platforms. By developing a tool, the approaches are to be made usable for industrial users.