Scholar
Michael A. Hedderich
Google Scholar ID: lvCvljEAAAAJ
Munich University (LMU)
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,053
H-index
15
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- His student Raoyuan had two EMNLP Findings papers accepted on cultural analysis and knowledge probing in LLMs; Florian had an EMNLP Findings paper accepted on discovering topic patterns in large text collections; Jesujoba (from Saarland University) had an EMNLP main paper accepted on charting the landscape of African NLP. Florian also had his first ACL paper accepted on probing multilingual discourse generalization.
Research Experience
- Currently a Junior Research Group Leader at Munich University (LMU); Post-doc at Cornell University with Qian Yang; Worked at the Computational Behavior Lab group of Antti Oulasvirta at Aalto University, Finland; Disney Research Studios in Zürich, Switzerland; Spoken Language Systems (LSV) group of Dietrich Klakow at Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany; Exploratory Data Analysis group of Jilles Vreeken at the Cluster of Excellence (now CISPA Helmholtz Center), Germany; Deep Data lab of Gerard de Melo at Rutgers University, USA; Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany, with Gerhard Weikum and Andrew Yates; and the machine translation research and development teams at Amazon in Berlin.
Education
- Ph.D. from Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany, under the supervision of Dietrich Klakow.
Background
- Research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction, focusing on enabling users to comprehensively explain, evaluate, understand, and control the complex behavior of modern LLMs and GenAI models. Interested in developing new technology as well as building bridges from AI to other fields.
Miscellany
- Member of the ELLIS Society. Used to make games.
