Sep 2024

Introduction

Who is Lou Süsslin? A short summary of my academic and professional career thus far and a few more details about my persona.

I have completed completed my B.Sc. degree in Computer Science (with Computational Linguistics as a minor) at Ludwig Maximilian University (or: University of Munich) in August of 2023. Since March 2024 I'm living in Vienna and study Data Science (M.Sc.) at Vienna University of Technology (or TU Wien).

Along my academic journey I have also gained practical experience. As of October 2024, I'm working as a private tutor (100+h of one on one lessons) and as a teaching assistant for the course of Introduction to Programming 1 at TU Wien (Winter term 2024/25). Previously, I also assisted the courses of Introduction to Media Informatics and Human-Computer Interaction at TU Dresden (Winter term 2023/24).
During three months of the summer of 2022, I have also supported a research project in Human-AI Interaction Design for aviation at the Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive Systems and Services (fortiss). I have also gained experience in the industry by working as a Software Engineering Working Student at the renowned German-speaking Q&A platform, gutefrage, from July 2020 to September 2021 in Munich.

During high school summer breaks, I have interned twice. Once at Apple Design Award-winning Ulysses, a text editor application company in Leipzig, and before at tresmo, an Augsburg-based IoT firm.

In my spare time, amongst other activites, I produce techno and other electronic music and perform as a DJ under the artist name Awkward Endeavor
(SoundCloud | Resident Advisor | bandcamp | Spotify)

Academic Works

• (1) Beyond Recommendations: From Backward to Forward AI Support of Pilots’ Decision-Making Process (Zelun Tony Zhang, Sebastian S. Feger, Lucas Dullenkopf, Rulu Liao, Lou Süsslin, Yuanting Liu, Andreas Butz)
  a project I contributed to, the paper of which is to be published in PACM HCI Vol. 8, No. CSCW2 in October of 2024
• (2) Visualizing and Counteracting Touch Overlap during Public Display Interaction (Supervisors: Linda Hirsch, Prof. Dr. Florian Alt, Prof Dr. Ville Mäkelä)
  my bachelor's thesis at the HCI group of LMU Munich
• (3) Programmiersprache L
  a logical programming language written in Haskell for a practical seminar (Group members: Marco D'Amelio, Maximilian Seilmaier
• (4) Alleviating Struggles at the Office: Leveraging Mobile Sensing to Understand and Counteract Issues
  a "media informatics" seminar paper

Other references

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Google Scholar

Origin Story

I was born in Augsburg-Oberhausen, Southern Germany, to a working-class family with deep roots in the East Swabian town dating back to the times coined by protestant weavers in the "Free Imperial City" era (16th century and earlier). My mother is a trained postal worker, and my father worked as a demolition contractor. Both of my grandfathers were predominantly butchers and were of farm families from other areas of the culturally southwestern parts of the Alpine Foreland, predominantly Middle Swabia and East Allgovia. Meanwhile, my grandmothers were born and raised in my hometown, with one of them having more recent roots in the western end of Swabia, in Stuttgart-neighboring Esslingen. I grew up in a 7.5qm room of a 1940s Zeilenbau-apartment located in the Wolfram quarter, a working-class neighborhood in Augsburg's, now historic, Textile District.