Hi, I’m Thilo

I’m a senior data scientist at Bundesdruckerei, Germany’s federal printing office, where I lead a project on evaluating large language models for the public sector and build LLM prototypes with federal ministries.

Before that I spent six years at the Quality and Usability Lab at TU Berlin. My doctoral thesis was about simulating conversations to predict how people perceive the quality of a phone call, and it received the Erhard-Höpfner-Promotionspreis. Along the way I served as an editor in ITU-T Study Group 12, which sets international standards for speech quality.

This site collects things I’ve written. Some of it is about work. Some of it is a sorting algorithm based on horoscopes. Outside of computers I play piano, sing a cappella and drink an amount of coffee that I once started tracking and then stopped tracking.

Work

  1. 2023–now

    Senior Data Scientist

  2. 2020–2023

    Editor, Study Group 12

  3. 2017–2023

    Researcher

  4. 2013–2016

    Student assistant and tutor

  5. 2009–2012

    Student worker

Education

  1. 2017–2022

    Dr.-Ing., Computer Science

  2. 2013–2016

    M.Sc., Computer Science

  3. 2009–2012

    B.Sc., Applied Computer Science

Talks and awards

  1. 2025

    Methodical Evaluation of LLMs for the Public Sector

  2. 2023

    Erhard-Höpfner-Promotionspreis

  3. 2023

    LLMs in the public sector

  4. 2019

    Simulating Human-to-Human Dialogue

  5. 2018

    Chat-Bots for Student Counseling