Work Experience
Karlsruhe, Germany
Institute of Information Security and Dependability
Sep 2025-Dec 2025
Student Assistant
The OCI Healthcare Cybersecurity Research Group focuses on building high-resilience healthcare systems to ensure business continuity under cyberattacks. By analyzing real-world hospital data and developing risk assessment models, the team identifies system vulnerabilities with precision and enhances the capability to maintain uninterrupted critical medical services.
Led data preparation, systematically collecting, cleaning, and classifying hospital operational data from multiple sources. Leveraged AI tools to automate processing, improving research efficiency by 300%.
Conducted in-depth market and policy research, analyzing hospital cyber insurance cases and mapping telemedicine and community healthcare networks in Baden-Württemberg to identify systemic vulnerabilities.
Karlsruhe, Germany
IPEK, KIT
May 2025-Sep 2025
Student Assistant
The IPEK research project aims to transform accumulated product development methodologies into two AI-driven consulting systems — the Product Development Coach and the Project Type Evaluation Analyst — providing cost-efficient and scalable intelligent consulting services for small and medium-sized technology enterprises.
Conducted technical research and adopted Custom GPT as the MVP foundation, accelerated the core development timeline by 60% (from 8 to 3 months).
Redesigned the consulting workflow and built a structured methodology database to systematize expert knowledge.
Owned prototypes and conducted user testing to validate usability and product-market fit.
Launched an MVP adopted by 50+ graduate students across 2 courses, and delivered comprehensive 20+ page documentation for handover to the School of AI.
Sindelfingen, Germany
Mercedes-Benz AG
Nov 2024-Dec 2024
Student Assistant
Participated in a co-innovation project between Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen Plant and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Led the design of a digital shared-service system to replace the factory’s manual and fragmented e-vehicle management process — optimizing resource allocation, enabling asset tracking, and achieving long-term cost savings.
Conducted user persona research for E-Wagon operator and maintenance group.
Created user journey map and storyboard for station-based sharing framework.
Collaborated with mechanical engineer to develop E-Wagon station framework.
Shanghai, China
ORKA
Jul. 2020 – Aug. 2023
Senior UX Designer
Served as Lead Designer for the company’s customer app and US market E-commerce web, driving the full lifecycle from concept exploration to product launch for both first and second product generations.
Managed a team of 7 junior designers, providing mentorship and overseeing project timelines.
Coordinated cross-medium usability testing across hardware, software, and packaging; identified and resolved critical UX gaps to ensure seamless real-world usability.
Built the digital design system from scratch, establishing consistent interaction and visual standards that improved collaboration efficiency and UI component reusability, enabling faster iteration cycles.
Shanghai, China
ORKA
Jul. 2020 – Aug. 2023
Web Design Intern
Redesign Orka website homepage, resulting in a 10% increase in new signup upon launch.
Visualised the pitch deck for the founding team, laid the foundation for $5M Series A funding later on.
Recommendations
Univ.- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Albert Albers
Spokesperson of the IPEK Executive Board
"I am confident that she will be an outstanding contributor in any advanced academic or professional environment. "
Ben Sun
CEO of ORKA (Evoco Labs Co., Ltd. )
"Ms. GaoDi's professional experience is distinguished by her dedication, collaborative problem-solving, and remarkable track record in performance evaluations. As her direct manager, I thoroughly enjoyed working with her, as she consistently demonstrated exceptional cooperation, teamwork, and strong personal and soft skills that contributed to the overall success of the projects we undertook together. "