Philipp Besendorfer
PhD Student
- E-mail address: philipp.besendorfer(at)informatik.uni-regensburg.de (opens your email program)
- Location: Bajuwarenstr.4, BA 635
- Important information: Evaluation of algorithms with applications in the healthcare sector
- Chair of Computational Statistics
About me
Since May 2026, I have been serving as a research associate at the department within the framework of the Marianne Plehn Program – a program of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation in cooperation with the Elite Network of Bavaria.
From November 2024 to April 2026, I was likewise employed as a research associate at the department. Prior to that, I worked as a data scientist at T.Con GmbH & Co. KG in Regensburg.
I completed my master’s degree in Survey Statistics at the University of Bamberg in 2022, following the completion of my bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University of Regensburg.
Research Interests
I am currently engaged in evaluating the health benefits of algorithms in the healthcare sector, with a particular emphasis on the development and optimization of inferential statistical methods that enable valid test decisions following the use of Response Adaptive Randomization (RAR).
A central focus of this work concerns the question of how the hyperparameters of RAR procedures can be selected such that patient benefit during the study is maximized while the statistical power of the test is preserved.