Marc Oedingen received his Master’s degree in Data and Information Science from TH Köln University of Applied Sciences in 2024. Since January 2026, he has been pursuing a PhD in applied mathematics at École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. At TH Köln, he worked as a research associate at the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering from 2022 to 2024 before joining the Institute for Data Science, Engineering, and Analytics in the same role in June 2024. His research interests include reinforcement learning, black-box optimization, retrieval-augmented generation for large language models, and explainable artificial intelligence.