Keyvan Hardani

Lead AI Engineer · Doctoral Researcher (PhD) 🇩🇪 Munich, Germany · IEEE Member

TU Darmstadt — PhD: AI for Engineering Systems & Intelligent Document Processing ZM-I Group — Lead AI Engineer (AI-driven platforms for engineering & industrial applications) M.Sc. Cybersecurity (HDBW Munich) · OSCP · CEH · 10+ CVE credits

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Research Focus

• Intelligent Document Processing (OCR, Layout Analysis, Vision-Language Models)
• AI for Engineering & Infrastructure Systems (technical documents, maps, plans)
• Agentic AI Systems & LLM-based Automation
• Privacy-aware & Trustworthy Machine Learning (GDPR-compliant pipelines)
• Robustness & Security of Applied Machine Learning

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🆕 Recently shipped — German-OCR-3 v0.2 (Apr 2026)

Deutsche Vision-OCR. Kompakt (1.0 / 2.7 GB), lokal lauffähig, Apache 2.0. Auf 200+ echten anonymisierten deutschen Rechnungen: 100 % gültiges JSON · 95 % Sender korrekt · 0 % Halluzination.

• 🤗 Hugging Face: Keyven/german-ocr-3
• 🦙 Ollama: Keyvan/german-ocr-3 · Keyvan/german-ocr-nano
• 💻 GitHub: Keyvanhardani/german-ocr (⭐ 76)
• 🌐 Hosted API: german-ocr.de

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Current Projects

• German-OCR-3 — Local vision-language OCR for German documents
• German-Privacy-Shield — GDPR-compliant PII detection & redaction
• German-TTS — German text-to-speech system (WIP / public release soon)
• Deutschland-Assistent — AI assistant for German document & workflow automation (coming soon)

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Stack

Languages · Python · C++ · Go · TypeScript · SQL ML / AI · PyTorch · TensorFlow · ONNX · Transformers · PEFT/LoRA · vLLM · llama.cpp · Ollama Agentic / LLM · LangChain · RAG (Weaviate / FAISS / Pinecone) · Prompt Engineering · Fine-tuning (QLoRA / LoRA) Infra · Docker · FastAPI · CUDA · GPU orchestration · CI/CD · MLOps Security · OSCP mindset · LLM red-teaming · GDPR-compliant pipelines

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Contact

📧 hardani@hotmail.de 🔗 LinkedIn 🤗 HuggingFace 🦙 Ollama 🌐 keyvan.ai · german-ocr.de

_{Open to selected collaborations in applied AI, vision-language systems, and ML infrastructure.}