Both ACL papers won outstanding paper awards in 2023; RTG “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” funded by DFG; gave an invited talk at IWCS 2025; spoke at the AI Action Summit about LLMs and problem solving in 2025.
Research Experience
Postdoc at Columbia University and the University of Edinburgh, and a Professor of Theoretical Computational Linguistics at the University of Potsdam. Spent sabbaticals at Meta AI in Paris and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle.
Education
PhD in Computer Science from Saarland University, advised by Manfred Pinkal and Gert Smolka.
Background
Professor of Computational Linguistics, with research interests in natural language processing and computer science. Currently working in the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University.