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Michael Müller
AI Research Engineer · Machine Learning & LLM Systems
Innsbruck, Austria
Machine learning engineer and Ph.D. researcher working on LLM-based systems: dialogue understanding, agentic pipelines, and personalization. Experienced in building and evaluating end-to-end ML systems in Python/PyTorch, running large-scale training and inference workloads on GPU clusters, and taking models from research prototype to deployed, user-facing product. Native German speaker, based in the DACH region.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
2024 – Present
University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Conversational Recommender Systems: LLM architectures for dialogue understanding and personalization
- Advisor: Prof. Eva Zangerle
M.Sc. Economics and Statistics
2021 – 2023
University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Grade 1.0
- Minor in Digital Science (30 ECTS, Grade 1.2): NLP, Machine Learning, Data Science
- Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of AR(1) Bias Corrections and an Innovative Solution for Taming Serial Correlation
B.Sc. Economics
2017 – 2021
LMU Munich, Germany
- Grade 1.9
- Thesis: Shift share instruments and their application in family economics
Work Experience
ML Engineer & Researcher – Industry Cooperation
2025 – Present
CASABLANCA Hotel Software • Innsbruck, Austria
- Building and evaluating an LLM-based conversational agent deployed in production for hotel booking and guest services
- Designed the evaluation pipeline: offline benchmarks, error analysis on real dialogue logs
Research & Teaching Assistant
2024 – Present
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck • Innsbruck, Austria
- Develop LLM-based architectures for dialogue understanding and personalization in conversational recommender systems
- Run large-scale training and inference experiments on HPC/GPU clusters; own the full pipeline from data preparation to reproducible results
- Teaching: Algorithms and Data Structures, Database Systems
Research Assistant
2022 – 2023
Dept. of Statistics, University of Innsbruck • Innsbruck, Austria
- Developed and published an open-source R package for advanced time-series modeling, including documentation and test coverage
Research Assistant
2021 – 2022
Dept. of Political Science, University of Innsbruck • Innsbruck, Austria
- Built NLP pipelines for large-scale text analytics within the European Constitutional Court Network (ECCN)
Skills
Programming Languages
ML & Deep Learning
LLM Systems
Infrastructure
Methods
Languages
Projects
Agentic Training Coach
2025 – Present
Personal project
End-to-end agentic system that ingests training and wellness data from Intervals.icu, reasons over load and recovery trends, and generates personalized training plans.
- Closes the loop by writing structured workouts back via API
- Tool-using agent with a sandboxed Python REPL for dynamic data analysis
- Built with FastAPI and LiteLLM (multi-provider LLM routing)
Honors & Awards
- 2026 Sister Conferences Best Papers Track, IJCAI (selected from RecSys 2025)
- 2025 Best Short Paper Award, ACM RecSys Conference
- 2024 Excellence Scholarship, University of Innsbruck
- 2023 Excellence Scholarship, University of Innsbruck
Program Committees
- 2026 Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS)
- 2025 PC Member, ACM The Web Conference
Publications
See the publications page for the full list of journal, conference, and workshop papers.