MACHINE LEARNING GROUP

RPTU KAISERSLAUTERN-LANDAU

Billy Franks

PhD Student

Bio

Since 2020 Billy Joe Franks has been a doctoral student at the TU Kaiserslautern in the Machine Learning group supervised by Prof. Dr. Marius Kloft. Previously he finished his bachelors and masters degree in computer science at the TU Kaiserslautern (2012-2020).

Research interests

Billy Joe Franks specializes in basic research in machine learning, with a past focus on anomaly detection in deep learning. Currently, he is working on machine learning theory in graph learning and applying machine learning to rhythm-based games.

Appointments and scientific matters
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Office
TUK, Building 36, Room 316 - 67653 Kaiserslautern
Office phone
+49 631 205 3326

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2017-2020
Master degree in Computer Science, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
2012-2017
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

Professional Experience

since 2020
PhD candidate - Researcher, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
since 2018
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
2015-2018
Studentische Hilfskraft, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Activities and honors

2019
Winter semester 2018/19 prize for special engagement as a tutor in a algorithms and data-structures course
since 2016
Organizer of a computer science winter semester pre-course at TU Kaiserslautern