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Merlin holds a M. Sc. and B. Sc. in IT-Security from Ruhr-University Bochum. He is currently in the final phase of his PhD project at the Intitute for Neural Computation, where he worked on representation learning on high-dimensional time-series data using Slow Feature Analysis. His interests include approximate spectral graph-embeddings and dynamic Variational Auto-Encoders.