Curriculum Vitae

I am a first stage researcher with experience working in an international, heterogeneous, interdisciplinary research group. I conducted independent research on Natural Language Understanding and managed research projects on research data management. My research areas include Knowledge Graphs and Machine Learning with a focus on Zero-Shot Learning.


Work Experience

Start End Position Company

09/2023

PhD Student

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Research on combining Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs.

06/2019

03/2023

Junior Researcher

FIZ - Karlsruhe

Research on Zero-Shot Text Classification using Knowledge Graphs as auxiliary information as well as development of ontologies and Knowledge Graphs for research data management.

03/2018

09/2018

Thesis Student

Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Exploration of features for recognition of near-duplicate reports based on distributional semantics and transfer learning.

08/2017

02/2018

Research Assistant

Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB

Appending virtual reality scenes with foreground objects of an IP camera.

08/2016

02/2017

Thesis Student

Robert Bosch GmbH

Research on video based smoke detection for optical thin smoke.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Start End Course Institute

04/2020

08/2022

Information Service Engineering

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Lecture on fundamentals of natural language processing, knowledge mining, linked data engineering and information retrieval.

08/2020

12/2020

MOOC: Knowledge Graphs

Hasso-Platner Institute

Massive Open Online Course about basic semantic technologies including symbolic AI, knowledge representation with RDF, OWL and querying knowledge graphs via SPARQL.

Thesis Supervisor

Start End Course Institute

05/2020

12/2020

Bachelor Thesis

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Evaluation of methods based on large language models for fine-grained text classification.

05/2020

09/2020

Bachelor Thesis

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Knowledge extraction from structured Wikipedia list pages using regular expressions.

Education

Start End Degree University

03/2017

10/2018

Master of Science
(Computer Science)

University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe

Overall mark: very good (1.2) with distinction
Courses taken (among others): Pattern Recognition, Unsupervised Learning, Photogrammetry

09/2013

02/2017

Bachelor of Science
(Computer Science)

University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe

Overall mark: very good (1.2) with distinction
Courses taken (among others): Computer Vision, Embedded Systems, Robotics