Helmholtz AI consultants @ Helmholtz Zentrum Munich

Health-focused AI consultants
Helmholtz AI central unit / local unit for health also includes a team of health-focused Helmholtz AI consultants, that provide technical support and assessment to researchers across the Helmholtz Association through the voucher system. Currently, the Helmholtz AI consultant team @ HMGU is in the recruitment phase and the first scientists have joined. Some pilot vouchers are already under way and new exciting AI projects have been defined as the current consultants are expanding their network through collaborations with local Helmholtz Zentrum München researchers and partners.
Questions or ideas? consultant-helmholtz.ai@helmholtz-muenchen.de
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Team members

Marie Piraud
Helmholtz AI consultant team leader @ HMGU

Marie Piraud
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU team leader
Email: marie.piraud@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Focus areas:
- Medical computer vision, deep learning
- Biomedical data analytics, survival analysis
- Dynamical and statistical modelling, mixed-effect models
- Multi-modal data integration

Christian Müller
Helmholtz AI consultant team leader @ HMGU (interim)

Christian Müller
Helmholtz AI consultant team leader @ HMGU (interim)
Email: christian.mueller@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Lisa Barros de Andrade e Sousa
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU

Lisa Barros de Andrade e Sousa
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU
Email: lisa.barros@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Focus areas:
- Analysis and Integration of Omics Data
- Machine Learning
- Explainable AI
Highlighted Projects:
- Understanding gene silencing dynamics using explainable AI
- Prediction of miRNA expression from epigenetic factors
- Agent-based modelling of population dynamics

Christina Bukas
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU

Christina Bukas
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU
Email: christina.bukas@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Focus areas:
- Medical Image Processing
- c-GANs
- Image inpainting
Highlighted Projects:
- Acquisition Quality Assessment of Echocardiograms
- Estimation of vertebral bodies prior to fracture damage using generative models
- Rest tremor detection in Parkinson’s Disease with the help of a smartphone

Erinc Merdivan
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU

Erinc Merdivan
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU

Ruolin Shen
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU

Ruolin Shen
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU
Email: ruolin.shen@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Focus areas:
- Computer Vision
- Image and Video Processing
- Object Detection and Segmentation
Highlighted Projects:
- Deep unsupervised video saliency detector
- Face Super-resolution guided by 3D facial priors

Dominik Thalmeier
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU

Dominik Thalmeier
Helmholtz AI consultant @ HMGU
Email: dominik.thalmeier@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Focus areas:
- Optimal Control
- Reinforcement Learning
- Stochastic Optimization
- Bayesian Inference
Highlighted Projects:
- Threshold detection in ABR data
- Reinforcement learning for social graphs
- Learning climate dynamics with a CNN