Tim Rädsch

Last updated March 2026

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• Researcher, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
• PhD, Heidelberg University & DKFZ
• M.Sc., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• B.Sc. (double degree), TU Ilmenau & Tongji University
• Core author, ASAM OpenLabel - the predominant labeling standard for German automotive OEMs
• Ex-Team Lead Data Engineering (25-person team), understandAI - 7+ years data-centric AI
• ~1,450 citations, h-index 12 - Google Scholar

Selected Awards & Honors

• 2023: International Anton Fink Science Prize for AI (EUR 10,000)
• 2023: Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year Finalist
• 2024: 1st place - CVPR 2024 Annotation Competition (EUR 750)
• 2024: 2nd place - Critical View of Safety Challenge (USD 3,500)
• 2023: Hanns Seidel Foundation Merit Scholarship - awarded to <1% of students by the German Begabtenförderungswerke
• 2023: Best Flash Talk Award - ELLIS & AIHealth Conference

Selected Publications full list

• 2025: In the Picture: Medical Imaging Datasets, Artifacts, and their Living Review - FAccT
• 2024: Quality Assured: Rethinking Annotation Strategies in Imaging AI - ECCV
• 2024: Metrics Reloaded: recommendations for image analysis validation - Nature Methods
• 2024: Understanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation - Nature Methods
• 2023: Labelling instructions matter in biomedical image analysis - Nature Machine Intelligence
• 2023: Why is the winner the best? - CVPR
• 2022: Labelling instructions matter in biomedical image analysis - NeurIPS Workshop on Human-Centered AI (oral)

Selected Invited Talks (15+ total)

• 2026: Cambridge University AI in Medicine Summer School - "Academic Medical Imaging AI in the Age of Big Tech Giants"
• 2024: CVPR Panel Discussion - Data Curation & Augmentation in Medical Imaging
• 2024: "Quality Assured: Rethinking Annotation Strategies" - Medical Imaging Datasets Workshop, Copenhagen
• 2023: "How to avoid ML pitfalls in healthcare" - Lindau Nobel Laureate Delegation, Heidelberg
• 2023: "Labelling instructions matter" - Strategic Advisory Board Helmholtz Health Meeting, Berlin