CV
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Linguistics at Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) (Sep 2024 - present)
- M.Sc. Mathematics in Data Science at Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Oct 2020 - May 2024)
- Exchange at National Taiwan University (Aug 2022 - Jun 2023)
- B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science at Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg (Oct 2015 - May 2020)
- Exchange at University of Hong Kong (Sep 2018 - May 2019)
- Abitur at Theodor Heuss Gymnasium in Freiburg (2015)
- Exchange at Shkola 80, Yaroslavl, Russia (2011 - 2012)
Work experience
- Research Associate (Sep 2024 - present)
- MaiNLP at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS), LMU Munich
- Working on making language models and their representations of language more explainable
- Supervised by Michael Hedderich
- Research Associate (Jul 2024 - Sep 2024)
- Institute of Chinese Studies at Freiburg University
- OCR, data engineering, and data analysis
- Associate Researcher (Jan 2024 - Present)
- Chair of Chinese Studies at Trier University
- Social Network Analysis on Twitter
- Using state-of-the-art language processing to research current affairs commentators on social media
- Scaling qualitative approaches to millions of documents
- Machine Learning Researcher (Jan 2024 - Apr 2024)
- mixedbread.ai
- training state-of-the-art language embeddings
- shrinking RAG space complexity by over 50x through efficient binarization
- Research Assistant (Jun 2022 - Dec 2023)
- Trier University - Chair of Chinese Studies
- Social Network Analysis on Twitter
- Supervised by Professor Kristin Shi-Kupfer
- Data collection, engineering and analysis on social media platforms
- Research and Development Working Student (Apr 2022 - Aug 2022)
- Averbis GmbH
- Working on a novel approach for global explainability in neural language classification models
- Research And Development Intern (Oct 2021 - Feb 2022)
- Averbis GmbH
- using Explainable AI to improve performance of and trust in our NLP models
- researching and developing new methods for global explainability
- Research Assistant (Apr 2020 - Sep 2021)
- Universitätsklinikum Freiburg - Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics
- modelling two-photon imagery with a novelly proposed VAE model
- implementing experiments in julia and Flux machine learning library, training on HPC cluster
Publications
Teaching
Talks
Beyond disinformation: The role of Chinese current affairs commentators on Twitter
Talk at Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Natural Language Processing Meets China Studies. Discovering Patterns in Short Texts Beyond Topics
Talk at Trier University, Trier, Germany
Service and leadership
- AFS Volunteer (2015 - present)
- ICL Companion (2022 - 2023)
- Youth Leader at KJG Wittnau (2012 - 2014)
Honors & Awards
- China Scholarship by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- Scholarship by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- Scholarship by Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft
- Baden-Württemberg-Scholarship by Baden-Württemberg Stiftung