Hi, my name is

Alexandra Nikoltchovska.

PhD Student

I am a PhD student at the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics at KIT, working on probabilistic machine learning and explainable AI for energy systems.

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Experience

Research Associate & PhD Candidate - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jan 2025 - present

Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI), KIT, Karlsruhe.

Research in probabilistic machine learning and explainable AI for energy systems.

Working Student Data Science and Software Development - Porsche AG
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
Requirements engineering and end-to-end implementation of data science use cases using PySpark, SQL, Pandas, matplotlib, and Plotly. Development of processing strategies for large-scale time series and fleet data.
Student Research Assistant - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020

Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD), KIT, Karlsruhe.

Research on semi-automated data analysis: implementation of algorithms for feature engineering in machine learning, development of a framework for scientific evaluation of algorithms.

Student Assistant - Steinbeis 2i GmbH
Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
Support in project management, organization of events, public relations work, communication measures and research, maintenance of project websites.

Education

2021 - 2024
Master of Science in Computer Science
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thesis: Explaining Uncertainties in Power Grid Stability Predictions
2016 - 2021
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thesis: Evaluation of AutoML Methods for Predictive Maintenance
2011 - 2016
Dual High School Diploma (German and Bulgarian)
91. Gymnasium Prof. Konstantin Galabov