Medical Scientist
E-Mail: Mingkun Tan

• University training and degree

  2016 – 2019	M.Sc in Automotive Systems, Hochschule Esslingen, Germany
  2012 – 2016	B.Sc. in Vehicle Engineering, Yangzhou University, China

• Scientific career and activities

  2021 – 2024

  PhD in Computer Science, Bielefeld University, supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tim Wilhelm Nattkemper

• Academic memberships and activities

  2024 –	Research programme “ReproTrack.MS”, funded by BMBF
  2024 –	Postdoctoral scientist, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Germany

• Selected publications

  1. Tan M, Langenkämper D, Nattkemper TW. The impact of data augmentations on deep learning-based marine object classification in benthic image transects. Sensors. 2022 Jul 19;22(14):5383. doi: 10.3390/s22145383.
  2. Venkataramanan A, Kloster M, Burfeid-Castellanos A, Dani M, Mayombo NAS, Vidakovic D, Langenkämper D, Tan M, Pradalier C, Nattkemper T, Laviale M, Beszteri B. "UDE DIATOMS in the Wild 2024": a new image dataset of freshwater diatoms for training deep learning models. Gigascience. 2024 Jan 2;13:giae087. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giae087.
  3. Tan M, Langenkämper D, Nattkemper TW. Scaling Down Annotation Needs: The Capacity of Self-Supervised Learning on Diatom Classification. iScience. Under rivision.

  * contributed equally