Luca Engel

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Education

  1. EPFL

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    Master’s Degree in Computer Science

    Sep 2023Sep 2025

    GPA: 5.39 / 6

    • Specialization in Data Analytics
    • Master’s Thesis with ELCA – Grade: 6 / 6

    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

    Sep 2020Jul 2023

    GPA: 5.47 / 6

    • Bachelor’s Thesis – Grade: 5.5 / 6

Work Experience

  1. ELCA Informatik AG

    Zurich, Switzerland

    Machine Learning Engineering Internship – EPFL Master’s Thesis

    Mar 2025Sep 2025

    • Developed tariff code prediction models under severe class imbalance, achieving a Macro F1 score of 83%
    • Created a Text2Cypher system and dataset to translate textual medical treatment rules for automated invoice compliance checking with an execution accuracy of 91%
    • Explored GraphRAG potential for medical invoice verification, achieving an accuracy of 54.5%
    • Authored and defended an EPFL Master’s thesis based on the internship work (Grade: 6 / 6)
  2. think beyond ag

    Bern, Switzerland

    Full Stack Software Engineering Internship

    Jul 2024Sep 2024

    • Co-developed a survey and analytics platform in a Scrum team
    • Created a modular database schema to efficiently create and evaluate surveys
    • Fine-tuned an LLM for sentiment analysis of service reviews, achieving an F1 score of 87%

    Software Engineering Internship

    Jun 2022Sep 2022

    • Co-developed a traffic control system to optimize occupancy of parking garages
  3. EPFL

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    Student Assistant

    Sep 2023Feb 2024

    • Software Construction (Scala)

    Student Assistant

    Feb 2023Jun 2023

    • Parallelism and Concurrency (Scala)

    Student Assistant

    Sep 2022Feb 2023

    • Functional Programming (Scala)

    Student Assistant

    Feb 2022Jun 2022

    • Object-Oriented Programming (Java)