Matthias Feurer is a doctoral candidate at the Machine Learning Lab at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research focuses on automated machine learning, hyperparameter optimization and meta-learning. He is actively involved in developing open source software for AutoML and is the maintainer and co-creator of Auto-sklearn and OpenML-Python. Matthias is a founding member of the Open Machine Learning Foundation, gave AutoML tutorials at GCPR2019 and the ECMLPKDD summer school 2019 and co-organized the AutoML workshop in 2019 and 2020. Furthermore, he was part of the winning team of the 1st&2nd AutoML challenges and the BBO challenge@NeurIPS 2020.