Benedikt Tobias Bönninghoff

Conducting business‑oriented Data Science projects on Azure in pricing, logistics, or molecular diagnostics applications. Contributing to the digitization transformation to enhance efficiency and profitability.

The Data Science Kitchen is a non-profit group of enthusiastic data science and machine learning professionals doing data science projects in their free time. I co-founded this group in November 2020.

Conducted interdisciplinary research on machine‑learning‑based digital text forensics in collaboration with the Bundeskriminalamt, resulting in an award‑winning algorithm. Supervision of 15 Bachelor’s and Master’s theses & projects and 4 student workers. Graduate and undergraduate‑level teaching, including lectures, tutorials & labs in digital signal processing, automatic speech recognition & natural language processing.

Approved 3‑year BMBF grant (1,33 Mio EUR) with two additional cross‑functional partners (TU Dortmund, CORRECTIV gGmbH) to develop a fact‑checking assistance tool.

Collaborated with NTT Communication Science Laboratories to synchronize, segment & annotate audiovisual signals of recorded meetings. Supported two research projects dealing with sound & speaker localization.

Developed an algorithm for unsupervised classification of voiced speech and pitch tracking. Software testing (algorithms for speech enhancement and automatic speech recognition).

Improved a Matlab‑based simulation tool for robust estimation of the channel capacity in noisy powerline communication systems.

- Abschluss: Master of Science (Note: 94%) - Schwerpunkte: Künstliche Intelligenz, Audiosignalverarbeitung, Automatische Spracherkennung - Thema der Masterarbeit: „Knowledge Transfer From Text Data for Improved Unsupervised Word Segmentation“ (Note: 100%)

- Abschluss: Bachelor of Science (Note: 70%) - Schwerpunkte: Kryptographie, Nachrichtentechnik, Audioverarbeitung - Thema der Bachelorarbeit: "Untersuchung zu Problemen und Lösungsstrategien in der stereophonen Echokompensation" (Note: 100%)