Currently

• Incoming Visiting Researcher at the HealthyML Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
  supervised by Prof. Marzyeh Ghassemi.
• Research Assistant at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI).

Publications

• TaxonRL: Reinforcement Learning with Intermediate Rewards for Interpretable Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning.
  Maximilian von Klinski, Maximilian Schall. IEEE/CVF WACV 2026.
• GorillaWatch: An Automated System for In-the-Wild Gorilla Re-Identification and Population Monitoring.
  Maximilian Schall, Felix Knöfel, Noah König, Jan Kubeler, Maximilian von Klinski et al. IEEE/CVF WACV 2026.

Previously

• Graduated B.Sc. IT-Systems-Engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute with Distinction.
• International Academic Exchange at Universitat de Barcelona, graduate-level coursework in ML for Health, NLP, Deep Learning, Ethics in Data Science, Big Data, and more.
• Research Assistant at TU Berlin & BIFOLD - investigated human-aligned representation for diffusion transformers.
• Co-developed GorillaWatch in cooperation with Conservation X Labs.
• Working student at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) - co-developed a full-stack financial application.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant for Database Systems at Hasso Plattner Institute (Apr–Sep 2025).
• Volunteer Lecturer at ReDI School of Digital Integration - designed and delivered Advanced Python, Advanced Web Development, and Introduction to Computer Science for learners with refugee backgrounds.