Leon Witt

Bio

Leon Witt obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in 2024. His research interests are in AI, Blockchain and Mechanism Design.

Education Experience

• 10.2012-03.2016 B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering & Economics – RWTH Aachen, Germany
• 03.2016-09.2016 M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering & Economics – RWTH Aachen, Germany
• 09.2016-08.2017 M.Sc. Industrial Engineering – Tsinghua University, China
• 09.2019-06.2024 Ph.D. Computer Science – Tsinghua University, China

Work Experience

• 12.2017-03.2018 McKinsey Digital Capability Center, Aachen, Germany – Consultant
• 04.2018-09.2018 Baylands Incubator, Palo Alto, USA – Software Developer
• 10.2018-12.2018 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China – Visiting Scholar
• 01.2019-06.2019 Technical University Munich, Germany – Consultant & Researcher
• 11.2020-06.2025 Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany – Research Lead

Publications

1. Decentralized and Incentivized Federated Learning: A Blockchain-Enabled Framework Utilising Compressed Soft-Labels and Peer Consistency (2023 IEEE TSC)
2. Decentralized and Incentivized Federated Learning: A Systematic Literature Review (2022 IEEE IOTJ)
3. Blockchain and AI: Synergies and Conflicts (2024 IEEE Conference on AI – Workshop)
4. Democratizing Federated Learning with Blockchain and Multi-Task Peer Prediction (2024 IEEE Conference on AI – Workshop)