Nikita Philip Tatsch

I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Data and Computer Science at the University of Heidelberg and working part-time as a Software Developer at Rechner Industrie-Elektronik GmbH. My academic background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, during which I conducted research with the ALICE experiment at CERN. In my Master’s thesis, I focus on representation learning using Vector Quantization techniques for image data. More broadly, I’m interested in building truly intelligent AI systems—models that can see, talk, and reason across modalities. Beyond this, I’m curious about how we can make such models more interpretable and reliable, with the long-term goal of enabling their use in critical real-world applications.
I have contributed to major open-source machine learning frameworks, including PyTorch Lightning, adding improvements to data handling that support more transparent model development.