Richard D. Paul

Hi there! I’m Richi, currently a doctoral researcher at IAS-8 of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and the Data Science group of the Statistics Department of LMU Munich and member of the HDS-LEE graduate school under the supervision of Hanno Scharr, Katharina Nöh and David Rügamer working on uncertainty-aware live-cell imaging. In Spring 2024 I spent 3 months with Vincent Fortuin’s ELPIS group at Helmholtz Munich as a HIDA Trainee.

I did my bachelor’s thesis under the supervision of Monika Henzinger and Christian Schulz on random walk algorithms for maximal matching in dynamic graphs. My master’s thesis dealt with hyperparameter optimization for Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms using Bayesian optimization and was conducted under the supervision of Katharina Nöh, Fredrik Jadebeck and Christoph Dellago.

Fun fact: My first ever publication immediately got me an Erdős number of 4, which I doubt I’ll be able to beat in the future: Me 🡒 Monika Henzinger 🡒 Bob Tarjan 🡒 Fan Chung 🡒 Paul Erdős.

Research interests

In my work, I deal with uncertainty-aware analysis of live-cell microscopy images, mostly gathered from microfluidic experiments. Techniques and topics I am interested in involve Bayesian neural networks, Bayesian inference, stochastic processes, some graph theory, sampling algorithms and numerical methods.

If you’re a fellow researcher, feel free to reach out for cooperations or just to talk about common interests.

If you’re a motivated master’s student and searching for a thesis project, please contact me. We are usually able to offer a small remuneration for your work.

Email address: r.{last-name}@fz-juelich.de

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