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NAME NATIONAILTY EMAIL
Erik Lennart Nijkamp german erik.nijkamp@gmail.com
WORK EXPERIENCE
12/2012 current Co-Founder
TestObject - Mobile Testing, Berlin, Germany
Setting strategic directions in business development and providing the expertise in technology and research (w.r.t. machine-learning and cloud computing) to enable the TestObject technology a computer-vision based GUI recognition system. (full-time)
11/2009 01/2012
Research Assistant
(part-time)
07/2010 10/2010
Research Assistant
IBM R&D (Research), San Jose, CA, USA
(internship)
IBM Research Facility ARC (Silicon Valley) Involved in the development of a parallel matrix factorization algorithm based on stochastic gradient descent. Solving this optimization problem efficiently has applications to well-known machine learning problems such as collaborative filtering or fuzzy clustering.
10/2008 04/2009
Software Engineer
IBM R&D (Development), Bblingen, Germany
(full-time)
Participated in the development of a WebSphere based software product (WBIFN) which provided a gateway to the SWIFT network for third-party financial applications.
04/2008 10/2008
SAP Consulting
IBM R&D (Research), Bblingen, Germany
(internship)
Incorporated aspects of real-time analytics in SAP CRM as a joint effort of the local SAP data integration and remote SAP consulting departments. The results formed the basis of the bachelor thesis.
07/2007 10/2007
Research Assistant
IBM R&D (Research), San Jose, CA, USA
(internship)
IBM Research Facility ARC (Silicon Valley) Involved in the development of a patented algorithm based on Google's PageRank.
01/2007 04/2007
Java Development
IBM GBS (Global Business Services), Walldorf, Germany
(internship)
RFID deployment for automobile manufacture BMW The primary goal was to enhance a roughly completed RFID application.
08/2006 11/2006
SAP Consulting
IBM GBS (Global Business Services), Berlin, Germany
(internship)
SAP ABAP / CVS Integration Creation of an application which allows seamless real-time access to SAP project files stored in a central cvs repository.
01/2006 04/2006
Java Development
IBM GBS (Global Business Services), Stuttgart, Germany
(internship)
CMS Migration Merger of LBBW and BW Bank required data migration. Developed a concept and the corresponding implementation of a migration application.
EDUCATION
04/2009 01/2012 Master of Science Computer Science
Technical University of Berlin
Focus: Machine Learning, Information Management, Mathematics and Parallel Computing. Minor: Business.
10/2005 09/2008
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages
German: English : Mother tongue Fluent
PUBLICATIONS
2010
Heasoo Hwang, Andrey Balmin, Erik Nijkamp, et al.: BinRank: Scaling Dynamic Authority-Based Search Using Materialized Subgraphs. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 22(8): 1176-1190 Alexander Alexandrov, Erik Nijkamp, Stephan Ewen, Volker Markl, et al.: Massively Parallel Data Analysis with PACTs on Nephele. PVLDB 3(2): 1625-1628
2009
Martin Oberhofer, Erik Nijkamp: Embedded Analytics in Front Office Applications. BTW 2009: 449-459 Erik Nijkamp, Martin Oberhofer, Albert Maier: Value Demonstration of Embedded Analytics for Front Office Applications. BTW 2009: 624-627 Heasoo Hwang, Andrey Balmin, Berthold Reinwald, Erik Nijkamp: BinRank: Scaling Dynamic AuthorityBased Search Using Materialized SubGraphs. ICDE 2009: 66-77
2008
Akanksha Baid, Andrey Balmin, Heasoo Hwang, Erik Nijkamp, Jun Rao, Berthold Reinwald, Alkis Simitsis, Yannis Sismanis, Frank van Ham: DBPubs: multidimensional exploration of database publications. PVLDB 1(2): 1456-1459 (2008)