About me
I received my PhD in Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) from the University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS where I was member of the Text Mining group. Now I work on AI and data driven products, mostly focused on applications in the medical and healthcare domain.
My main passion is in NLP, especially for the German language, and Information Retrieval (IR). Sometimes I build Recommender Systems.
Talks
- I gave an update of the talk on Large Language Models for Medical Language Processing at IT Tage 2023. Here’s a Take Away Post on LinkedIn.
- I was invited to give a talk about Large Language Models and their application to medical data at the data2health Summerschool. I found the book Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing by my PhD advisor Gerd Paaß incredibly helpful for that.
- I talked about NLP for medical data with focus on German data and medical controlling at the ML Conference (online). Here are the slides, heavily damedic branded ;-)
- I gave a talk about entity linking for biomedical data at the Hamburg Data Science Meetup, Hamburgs largest data event. Here are the slides.
- I was invited to give a talk at my alma mater Hochschule Koblenz to tell the students (all aspiring data scientists, I hope) a bit about the life of a data scientist and my career path in general. As this was a bit informal, I chose the humorous avenue, so bear with me. Here are the slides (in German).
- I have a thing for tested code. In an “automated-vs-print-statement” sense. Here are some motivational slides that unfortunately do not seem to get old.
Resources
- I maintain a (somewhat opiniated) list of resources, covering blogs, newsletters and social events in the AI and tech ecosphere.
- This page is more focussed on NLP and contains a (hopefully growing) list of resources to get started in that domain.
- I love podcasts. Here’s my heavily biased list of aweswome-podcasts.
- Last but not least, here are some rather dusty notebooks on NLP (mostly spaCy and elasticsearch related).
Publications
You can find my publications at Google scholar.