Valentin Schmidt

Valentin Schmidt

MSc Machine Learning — Universität Tübingen

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Work Experience

Young Talent — Software Development
itestra GmbH
Jun 2025 — Present
Part-time software development on client projects as part of itestra's Young Talent program, including automated end-to-end testing with Selenium.
Student Developer — Tübingen Institute of Medical Education
University of Tübingen
Apr 2025 — May 2025
Full-stack development of an AI-based role-playing chatbot using Django (Python) and JavaScript, actively used for multiple studies. Also actively supporting a study of my own.
HiWi — Quantitative Linguistics
University of Tübingen
Jun 2024 — Mar 2025
Data engineering over 10 TB of voice and text data and model training on this data for a scientific voice-synthesis language model. [GitHub — Arbeitszeugnis]
TA — Practical Computer Science 1
University of Tübingen
Winter Semester 2023/24
Graded assignments and led a tutorial group of 20 students in BSL/ISL.

Research

Exploring the Validity of Side-by-Side Prompt Display in the Benchmarking of LLMs
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
Mid Apr 2026 — Present
Investigating whether the side-by-side prompt display used by arena-style evaluation platforms such as Chatbot Arena (lmarena.ai) affects the validity of crowd-sourced LLM benchmarking.

Education

Master of Science in Machine Learning
University of Tübingen
Current GPA: 1.77
Oct 2024 — Present
Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science
University of Tübingen
Final grade: 1.29 — Top 11%
Oct 2021 — Oct 2024
Thesis: Using Permutation Feature Importance to Analyse a Deep Learning Hydrological Model
Using permutation feature importance, a model-agnostic method, to analyse the inner workings of a deep learning hydrological model and identify the most influential input features and regions.
Law (State Examination Program)
University of Tübingen
Apr 2020 — Jul 2021
Abitur (German High School Diploma)
Schönbuch-Gymnasium, Holzgerlingen
Final grade: 1.0
Sep 2010 — Jul 2019

International Experience

Erasmus Semester — Université de Montpellier
Sep 2025 — Jan 2026
Exchange semester at the Faculties of Computer Science and Mathematics; all coursework conducted in French.
Au Pair
Hendaye, France
Apr 2022 — Jun 2022
Supervised children of a French-Basque family; taught German.

Extracurricular Activities & Scholarships

Online Scholarship — e-fellows.net
Dec 2019 — Present
Scholarship for students with outstanding academic achievements.
Summer Academy “What is Language?”
Deutsche Schülerakademie
Aug 2017
Exploration of philosophical and linguistic backgrounds of language acquisition.

Skills

Programming & IT

Python JavaScript Java SQL Bash / Linux LaTeX Git Django Selenium LangGraph / LangChain MS Office

Languages

German — native English — fluent French — proficient