Hi there 👋
I am currently a post-doc at the Technion in the group of Yonatan Belinkov where I work in the areas of Information Retrieval, NLP, and Interpretability.
In May 2024, I finished my PhD in Computer Science at the Dresden Database Research Group at TU Dresden. In my PhD thesis, I developed approaches for incorporating Transformer-Encoder models for Mathematical Retrieval and interpreted what these models had learned during their training.
Before that, I studied Computer Science at TU Dresden, where I received my Diplom (ancient German degree combining Bachelor and Master) in September 2019. My thesis was on un-/ semi-supervised approaches for Grammatical Error Correction in English, where I explored the usage of Variational Autoencoders and backtranslation.
During my studies, I spent a semester each at the Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan (2015/16), and at the NLP Lab of the National University of Singapore (2018). In addition, I also spent one semester in China helping children to learn English while improving my Chinese (2017).
News
- April 2025: The first work of my post-doc project “Reverse-Engineering the Retrieval Process in GenIR Models” was accepted as a full paper to SIGIR 2025.
- March 2025: Our Workshop on Actionable Interpretability was accepted and will take place at ICML in Vacouver!
- December 2024: I will take part in a discussion about Scientific Writing with AI organized by the Young Scientists Forum German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM)
- September 2024: I have been awarded the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship
- August 2024: Start of my post-doc at the Technion 🎉
Portrait Photo Credit: Shauli Lendner