Paul Brunzema

I am a PhD student at the Institute for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering (DSME) at RWTH Aachen University, supervised by Sebastian Trimpe, since March 2022. Since September 2023, I am also an associate doctoral researcher in the UnRAVel Research Training Group, funded by the DFG.

Currently, I am a research scientist intern at Meta in New York, NY working on Bayesian optimization and AutoML. In summer 2025, I joined the EPIC group at Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Los Altos, CA as a research intern, working on autonomous racing in changing conditions.

My research focuses on uncertainty quantification (Gaussian processes, Bayesian neural networks) and sequential decision-making (Bayesian optimization, control, reinforcement learning).