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<p>Dear students of the faculty,</p>
<p>I'd like to point out an interesting opportunity for writing a
Master's thesis in collaboration with<a
href="https://it-jobs.aldi-sued.de/"> ALDI DX</a>, the digital
branch of ALDI Süd. <br>
This might be particularly interesting for those of you
considering a career as Data Scientist or Data Engineer.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<h3>Master's topic: Machine Learning for Inventory-Level Prediction</h3>
<p>In large-scale retail, knowing the correct inventory levels of
your products at any time is crucial. It allows stores to order
just the right amount at just the right time, thereby increasing
efficiency and decreasing waste. It turns out that this is a
really hard problem -- products get stolen, broken or are simply
miscounted -- and the recorded levels tend to drift away from the
real numbers. <br>
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<p>This project is about applying machine learning methods to
counteract this. The idea is to use the the data that ALDI has
available to either detect situations in which the drift is likely
very large, possibly triggering a manual recount, or to train a
Bayesian neural network to get an accurate prediction of the
current inventory level.<br>
<br>
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<p>Additional info:</p>
<ul>
<li>You will be co-advised by experienced data workers at ALDI DX
and by me. </li>
<li>You'll work with real data provided by ALDI's supply chain
management: Possibly a non-disclosure agreement
(Geheimhaltungsvereinbarung) has to be signed.</li>
<li>You will get a contract from ALDI for the time you are working
on the thesis. Likely, this will be a 20h/week contract for the
whole six months.</li>
</ul>
<p>Requirements:</p>
<ul>
<li>General technical aptitude</li>
<li>Good coding skills (project will be Python-based) </li>
<li>Previous exposure to Machine Learning would be helpful, but is
not necessary.<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<h4>Interested?<br>
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<p></p>
<p>Just write me an eMail including a current transcript of records
and a short self-assessment of your coding skills. If you had any
previous exposure to machine learning or statistics, please
outline it briefly. <br>
<br>
</p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
Merlin Schüler</p>
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<a
href="https://www.ini.rub.de/the_institute/people/merlin-schuler/#about_me"
style="color:#8dae10;">Merlin Schüler</a><br>
Institute for Neural Computation | Faculty of Computer Science <br>
Chair for the Theory of Neural Systems<br>
Ruhr-University Bochum<br>
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Universitätsstr. 150<br>
Building NB, Room 3/35<br>
D-44801 Bochum, Germany<br>
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