• Grant & Budget Management: Full-cycle grant submission (€1.5M, Daimler Benz Foundation): gathering a 3-partner consortium, budget planning, technical roadmaps, and internal institutional verification. • Operations & Cross-Departmental Alignment: Coordinated with administrative, HR, and finance departments to organize the recruitment of new staff and align project budgets. • Team Leadership: Mentored 6 PhD candidates and student researchers, overseeing the delivery of ML and LLM projects.

• R&D Project Planning & Resource Allocation: Planned and executed Trustworthy AI and AI Safety projects. Aligned roadmaps with Business Units and collaborated with HR to justify headcounts, define deliverables, and secure resources. • Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Management: Regularly presented R&D projects progress to senior leadership (including C-level) and B2B automotive partners / OEMs, highlighting the business value of ongoing research. • Cross-Departmental Coordination & Deployment: Bridged the gap between AI research and production. Coordinated with software developers and MLOps teams, acting as a technical consultant and the architect to guide the transition of MVPs (verification modules, adversarial defense) into production pipelines. • Project Tracking & Documentation: Formulated project timelines, maintained comprehensive technical documentation, and tracked R&D deliverables using Jira and Confluence. • IP, Legal Compliance & Open Source: Collaborated closely with the Intellectual Property and Legal departments to manage open-source releases, ensure license compliance (BlackDuck), and successfully filed 4+ patents in AI safety. • Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Supervised 4 interns and junior engineers to ensure smooth project execution and actively organized cross-departmental best-practice exchanges for both the scientific community and technical specialists.

• R&D & Open Source: Conducted hands-on R&D in remote sensing and self-supervised retrieval (CNNs, Transformers). • Project Documentation: Managed open-source releases, maintained project documentation. • Mentorship: Mentored 2 students on AI and remote sensing research projects.

• Grant & Consortium Management: Led the end-to-end application lifecycle for the €1.5M ERA-NET Horizon 2020 grant (3-partner international consortium), managing budget calculations, cross-partner coordination, and internal verification. • Project Leadership & Mentorship: Directed a research project on knowledge representation and ontologies, supervising student researchers and overseeing the technical delivery.