Lennart Bastian is a Royal Society Newton Fellow at Imperial College London. I works at the CIRCLE group, where he pursues topics at the intersection of geometry, topology, and machine learning.
He completed his PhD with highest distinction (summa cum laude) at the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) in Munich, supervised by Prof. Nassir Navab, where he also coordinated research of the Surgical Data Science team. Prior to this, he conducted his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich with an emphasis on optimization and statistics, and Bachelor’s in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University’s Courant Institute.
He also had previous stints in software and data science at H2oMetrics, a cloud water management startup, and as a research assistant at the MSKCC Levine Lab, developing computational tools for the genetic analysis of patients with myeloid leukemias.