Clemens Helmut Sageder's Homepage


About Me

Hi, I'm Clemens, a computer science student at ETH Zurich, currently on exchange at Princeton University. Welcome.

You can reach me at csageder (at) ethz (dot) ch.

Work Experience and Education

I am pursuing a B.Sc. in Computer Science at ETH Zurich with a GPA of 5.65 / 6.0 (top 5%), where I am also semester spokesperson, representing 600+ students.

At Princeton, I currently work on AI agents research under Prof. Karthik Narasimhan.

Before that, I interned at Stripe in Dublin. I built a unified refunds pipeline for six direct debit methods, migrating ~$600M/year in refunds, and created automated penny-testing agents and implemented Adaptive Pricing for ACH and ACSS.

At ETH, I spent a few months as a research assistant in the Distributed Computing Group (Prof. Roger Wattenhofer), developing ML models for extracting vascular networks from 3D mouse-brain microscopy scans.

I was also a teaching assistant for Linear Algebra at the ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics.

While still in high school, I spent two summers as a software engineering intern at Dynatrace, where I led the development of transpilers converting Splunk Query Language (SPL) and Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) to Dynatrace Query Language (DQL).

Also during high school, I was dual-enrolled at Johannes Kepler University, completing computer science coursework with a GPA of 1.06 / 1.0 (top 1%).

Awards

  • Bending Spoons Fellowship: 1 of 10 recipients in Europe (€50,000 per year).
  • Winner of the Swiss {ai} Weeks Hackathon Zurich (CHF 16,000 in prizes).

Some Books I Like

  • The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (everything by Tolkien is great; if you don't like this book — it's written like the Bible — then read at least the best chapter, The Fall of Gondolin)
  • The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
  • The Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
  • The Last Ringbearer by Kirill Eskov
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn