Hi, I'm Ole Petersen
Member of Technical Staff @ Listen Labs
Engineer and ML researcher at Listen Labs in San Francisco, building LLM evaluation, human-feedback infrastructure, and agent tooling. First-author ICLR 2026 paper (GraphBSI), with a background spanning scientific computing, HPC, ML, and game theory.
Experience
Member of Technical Staff
2025-10 – now · Listen Labs
Full-stack engineering, agent infrastructure, and evaluation for Listen's AI research platform.
Data Scientist (Working Student)
2024-08 – 2025-06 · Check24
Production machine learning in the Loans team of Germany's largest comparison platform.
DevOps & Software Engineer (Working Student)
2020-09 – 2023-09 · QAware / Telekom
Cloud-native platform engineering, DevOps, and full-stack tooling for the Telekom smart-speaker backend.
Intern
2018-01 – 2018-02 · DLR Braunschweig
Student internship at the German Aerospace Center, getting to know the basics of CFD
Education
Master of Science in Computational Science and Engineering (Honors)
2023-09 – 2025-10 · Technical University of Munich
GPA 3.9 / 1.1 — best program grade in 3 years
Honors program (best.in.tum), tutor for Advanced Programming. relAI and Check24 GenDev scholarships.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science
2020-09 – 2023-09 · Technical University of Munich
GPA 3.7 / 1.3 — top 3%, 135% of required credits
Thesis: Learning Predatory Pricing in Dynamic Oligopolies through Reinforcement Learning (grade 1.0), leading to a paper submission. Deutschlandstipendium; passed with distinction.
Term abroad
2022-09 – 2023-01 · University of Exeter
1.3 (1.0-5.0 scale)
Awards & Honors
BGCE Honors Program
2024-04 · Bavarian Graduate School of Computational Engineering
Honors program participant, engaging in a collaborative scientific research project, summer academies, and soft-skill seminars.
relAI Scholarship
2023-10 · DAAD / Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI
Scholarship for outstanding students in reliable AI; also served as student representative.
Check24 GenDev Scholarship
2023-06 · Check24
Selected as a scholar of the Check24 GenDev software-engineering scholarship.
Deutschlandstipendium
2021-09 · TUM
Scholarship awarded for academic excellence and social commitment (2021-23).
National Mathematics Olympiad (Federal Level)
2018-06 · Mathematik-Olympiaden e.V.
Qualified for the federal round of the national mathematics olympiad.
Leadership & Community
Scholarship Student Representative
2023-10 – 2026 · Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI
Built a community of 80+ scholarship holders together with the coordinators, hosting 10+ social and academic events, and created a wiki centralizing scholarship resources.
Dormitory Tutor
2023-10 – 2025-05 · Hochschulhaus Garching
Organized 40+ social events, fostering an inclusive community for over 100 residents.
Jury Member
2020-11 – now · Bundeswettbewerb Informatik
Part of the evaluation team for Germany's national computer science competition, twice a year.