Aena Lodi

• Master's thesis project on personalized learning for beginner programmers. • Developed an extensive validation pipeline of language model output to ensure effective creation of tailor-made practice problems in Python.

• Analyzed data and built models for AI-based returns forecasting of apparel. • Published papers in well-known conferences: ICAART 2024, ICSBT 2023, with two more accepted papers pending publication: TIWC 2023, and Springer.

In this role, I: • Engineered new features and models for accurate revenue predictions using techniques from AI and data science. • Automated deployment and production incident handling processes to help increase speed and efficiency of the whole team. (Python, R, MySQL) • Developed an interactive dashboard to monitor real-time and retrospective production environment trends. (R, Shiny, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap)

• Implemented a smart search functionality for use in financial documents, to automate auditing and regulatory compliance. • Constructed a Word document parser, extracting and processing XML tables to ensure correct alignment.

• Worked on VR integration for the driving simulator Rigs of Rods, using Unity and Oculus Rift hardware. • Designed a challenging 3D terrain to run vehicles on the simulator.

Majoring in AI for Programming Education, Automated Debugging, and Social Computing.

• CGPA: 3.66 / 4.00 (German grade: 1,5) • Majored in Statistical Learning, Data Science and Software Engineering.