Dr.-Ing. Stefan Balke
Data Scientist. Team Leader. Educator. Researcher. Musician.

Höxter, Germany
Trying to be a generalist with a deep understanding and intuition of recent technologies related to Data Engineer, Data Science, and Machine Learning. Currently leading a team of Data Scientists helping customers sorting their data, lifting its quality to ML-readiness, and eventually obtaining business value from modern data-driven approaches.
Before that, I obtained my PhD in applied Machine Learning research, namely Music Information Retrieval, supervised by Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen. I continued my research as a Post-Doc at the Institute for Computational Perception at JKU Linz, led by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Widmer.
A compact form of my curriculum vitae can be found here.
news
Mar 11, 2022 | My proposal for a small funding for music education at my orchestra got accepted by Kreis Höxter. We will use the money to foster our relationships with the local music schools and help educate the next generation of musicians! |
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Jan 21, 2022 | Hooray 🥳, second year in a row I got a “Best Faculty Award” for my teaching obligations at Controller Institute (category >4 days, 3. place). |
Jul 1, 2021 |
Started as conductor at a local orchestra, good to be back in the game! ![]() |
Sep 1, 2020 | Accepted an offer for a new teaching obligation at TH OWL for the module “Databases”. |