Taulant Koka

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Taulant Koka received both the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) (opens in new tab) in 2018 and 2022, respectively.

He spent one semester of his master’s studies (2019) at Aalto University (opens in new tab) (Finland) and another semester (2021/22) at EPFL (opens in new tab) (Switzerland), where he was hosted by the AudioVisual Communications Laboratory (opens in new tab) to work on his master's thesis (opens in new tab) in collaboration with the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC). (opens in new tab) His thesis deals with the reconstruction of multivariate sparse signals from samples without precise channel correspondences. In May 2023, he was awarded the SEW-EURODRIVE Foundation's (opens in new tab) student award for his thesis.

Afterwards, he continued his stay in Switzerland to join the SDSC Hub at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) (opens in new tab) as a Data Science intern for four months. At PSI, he worked on background estimation and spot detection in X-ray crystallography.

In October 2022, he commenced working towards his PhD with the Robust Data Science Group. (opens in new tab) His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and signal processing methods, such as sparse signal recovery, time-series analysis, and computer vision, with special emphasis on biomedical applications.