Interview #2 – Johannes Rieke

(Tyler) Hey, Johannes! Before we get started, do you want to give us a quick intro to yourself? Where have you worked in the past, what do you do, what is your background?

(Johannes) Hello! I'm from Germany, and currently living in Berlin. Well, as you know, I'm currently working at Streamlit and have been for the past 2 months but my background actually is in physics. So I did physics in my undergrad and I somehow got into neuroscience. I took a couple courses, did a few projects, and really loved it, especially the combination with computer science, doing simulations of nerve cells, the brain, all that kind of stuff. I got super interested in that. I decided to do my master's in computational neuroscience, which is kind of a combination of neuroscience on the one hand, but also machine learning on the other. In that program, I did a lot of stuff in all kinds of different areas of machine learning, like medical imaging, natural...