Portrait of Tomas Ruiz

Tomas Ruiz

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Research Assistant (PhD student) · Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

Munich, Germany

First-time speaker at PyCon DE & PyData 2026

About — in the speaker's own words

I am a research assistant at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich within Prof. Schwemmer’s Computational Social Science Lab. My research area is the intersection of Machine Learning and Social Media, particularly on multi-modal understanding. In previous jobs, I have worked as a software engineer in different corporations (Amazon, Allianz, BMW) and Startups. The projects ranged from optimization algorithms to backend-engineering.