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Full Professor (W3)

ScaDS.AI, TU Dresden

• Leading the Scalable Software Architectures for Data Analytics group (6 PhD students, 1 postdoc)
• Appointed at the age of 36
• Department leader for Cognitive AI at ScaDS.AI
• Elected Member of the Faculty Council of Computer Science, TU Dresden

Deputy Full Professor (W3)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

• Substitute for Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter as head of the Web Science research group (AIFB); led a team of 7 PhD students and 2 postdocs
• Oversaw research on NLP, Knowledge Graphs, Machine Learning
• Managed multiple projects (e.g., ProData, digilog@bw)
• Taught large lectures with audiences of up to 600 students

Postdoctoral Researcher

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

• Conducted independent research on Knowledge Graphs, NLP, and ML-related topics
• Supervised four PhD students
• Taught both in German and English
• Served as Principal Investigator in several research projects

Postdoctoral Researcher (JSPS Fellowship)

Kyoto University

• Awarded a prestigious JSPS fellowship for independent research in information retrieval
• One of only 15 JSPS fellows awarded worldwide in that period
• Co-supervised bachelor’s and master’s students

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Freiburg

• Led research on scholarly recommendation systems and knowledge graph topics
• Supervised bachelor’s and master’s theses
• Gained funding and managed industry collaboration (BMW Group)

Research Scientist Intern

Bloomberg L.P.

• Conducted research on detecting novel events from news and contributed to the Bloomberg NLP framework
• Applied NLP solutions to real-world financial news data

PhD Student / Research Associate

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

• Conducted research on semantic search for novel information
• Involved in multiple BMBF and EU projects (syncTech, xLiMe), managed the Software Campus project SUITE
• Supervised 23 theses and led seminar courses
• Handled financial controlling for the research group

PhD (Dr.-Ing.)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Computer Science

• Thesis: Semantic Search for Novel Information

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Ulm University

Philosophy

• Thesis: The Moral Philosophical Foundations of David Hume and Adam Smith – A Comparison

Helsinki University of Technology

Exchange Program (Computer Science)

Diplom-Informatik (≡ M.Sc.)

Ulm University

Computer Science

• Thesis: Optimizing Google’s PageRank

Best Paper Award

ISWC’23

For “SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26B RDF Triples.”

NII Scholarship

National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo

Two-month research stay at NII, Tokyo.

Best Poster Award

ISWC’22

For “The Green AI Ontology.”

Guest Professorship

University of Innsbruck (DiSC)

Two-month research stay at the University of Innsbruck.

DAAD Scholarship

DAAD

Funded a research stay at Kyoto University (remote, COVID-19).

Outstanding Lecture Award

KIT Faculty of Economics & Management

Recognized for excellent teaching performance.

AWS Research Grant

Amazon

$23,000 in AWS credits.

Outstanding Paper Award

Semantic Web Journal

For “Linked Data Quality of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO.”

JSPS Fellowship

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

One-year research stay at Kyoto University; awarded to only 15 researchers worldwide.

Microsoft Azure Research Award

Microsoft

$20,000 in Microsoft Azure credits.

NVIDIA GPU Grant

NVIDIA

Awarded an NVIDIA Titan Xp GPU.

Award for Extraordinary Commitment

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Received €3,000 for outstanding performance and dedication.

KIT Travel Grant

KIT

Supported research stay at Bloomberg, New York.

Award for Bachelor Thesis

Ulm University & Museumsgesellschaft Ulm

€5,000 prize for an excellent bachelor thesis.

ERASMUS Scholarship

European Union

Supported exchange studies at Helsinki University of Technology.

Tuition Fee Scholarship

Ulm University

€1,000 for outstanding academic achievements.

Full Publication List

Over 100 publications, including top-tier conference papers (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CIKM, ECML, KDD, ISWC) and journal articles.

PESSST

Summarizing and Simplifying Scientific Text

• KIT KCIST, €10,000 own funding

Klartext

AI-based Translation of Websites Into Plain Language

• SMWK, €22,000 own funding

TruthfulLM

Verifying and Ensuring Truthfulness in Large Language Models

• BMBF, €50,000 own funding

WG2Text

Knowledge Graph-based Text Generation

• Vector Foundation, €33,000 own funding

KIWI

Artificial Intelligence to Detect and Characterize Wake Turbulence in LiDAR Scans

• BMDV, €80,000 own funding

IIDI

Intelligent Information Services for Topic-specific Web Portals

• BMBF, €183,000 own funding

ChemKB

Chemistry Knowledge Base -- Creating a Knowledge Base for Chemistry as a Basis for Future Scientific Information

• KIT (Strategy Fund), €95,000 own funding

KIGLIS

Artificial Intelligence Processes for Optimizing Fiber Optic Networks Using the Example of an Intelligent City

• BMBF, €562,000 own funding

digilog@bw

Digitization in Dialogue

• Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg, €205,000 own funding

KD4RE

Knowledge Distillation for Relation Extraction

• BMBF, €35,000 own funding

SIRS

Scholarly Information Recommender Systems Using Knowledge Graphs

• DAAD & Ministry of Foreign Affairs, €9,000 own funding

ProData

Production-Related Service Systems Based on Big Data Analysis

• BMBF, €527,000 own funding

TransPer

Transparent Personalization of E-Commerce

• BMBF (Smart Data Innovation Challenges), €35,000 own funding

DataScore for DORA4KIT

Prototype Development of Reward Systems for Students and Researchers

• KIT, €17,000 own funding

AI4Peace

Mediating Machines? Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Peacemaking

• Volkswagen Foundation

Developing an Interlinking Framework

• BMW Group, €71,000 funding

ReCits

Recommending Relevant Citations in Text

• University of Freiburg (Innovation Fund), €25,000 own funding

Development of a Knowledge Graph

Development of a Knowledge Graph

• BMW Group, €60,000 own funding

Scientification

Automatically Enriching Text with Citations and References

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), €37,000 own funding

Prototypical Development and Evaluation of a Watson-based Information System

• BMW Group, €140,000 own funding

SUITE

Semi-Automatic Detection and Knowledge Base-Integration of Novelties from Text Documents

• BMBF (Software Campus), €100,000 own funding