Curriculum vitae
Publications
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)
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
Teaching
Service and leadership
Reviewing:
- Junior reviewer NeurIPS 2025
- Junior reviewer Actionable Interpretability Workshop, ICML 2025
- Junior reviewer for ACL ARR; Dec. 2024 and Feb. 2025 cycles
Other:
- ICL Companion (2022 - 2023)
- AFS Volunteer (2015 - 2020)
- 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