Teaching

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences:

• Natural Language Processing (BA and MA lecture)

  • summer '24, summer '23

• Artificial Intelligence (MA lecture)

  • summer '24, winter '23/'24, summer '23

• Explainable Artificial Intelligence (MA lecture)

  • summer '24, winter '23/'24

• Data Engineering (BA lecture)

  • winter '23/'24

• Planung von Informationssystemen (BA lecture)

  • summer '24, winter '23/'24, summer '23

• Datenbanken und Datenkunde 2 (BA lecture, with Prof. Dr. Peer Küppers)

  • summer '24, winter '23/'24, summer '23

• Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (MA lecture, with Prof. Dr. Jan Stöß and Dr. Djerdj Horvat)

  • summer '24, winter '23/'24, summer '23

• Supervision of Student Projects (Anwendungsprojekte, BA)

  • summer '24, summer '23

Before joining the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, I gave several lectures and seminars in English and German at the computer science institutes of Saarland University, Heidelberg University and the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences:

• Data Engineering, core lecture, Hochschule Karlsruhe, winter '22/'23

• Information Retrieval and Data Mining, core lecture, Saarland University, winter '17/'18, (with Jilles Vreeken)

• Big Data and Advanced Database Concepts, lecture, Hochschule Karlsruhe, summer '17, (with Andreas Schmidt)

• Information Extraction, seminar, Saarland University, winter '16/'17

• Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval, lecture, Saarland University, summer '16, (with Vinay Setty)

• Event Extraction, seminar, Heidelberg University, summer'15, (with Michael Gertz, Johanna Geiß, Thomas Bögel, Andreas Spitz)

• Recommender Systems, seminar, Heidelberg University, summer '14, (with Michael Gertz, Christian Sengstock, Thomas Bögel)

• Social Networks Data Analytics, seminar, Heidelberg University, winter '13/'14, (with Michael Gertz, Christian Sengstock, Thomas Bögel)

• Topic Models, seminar, Heidelberg University, summer '13, (with Michael Gertz, Christian Sengstock)

• Text Mining, seminar, Heidelberg University, winter '11/'12, (with Michael Gertz)

• Spatio-temporal Logics and Reasoning, seminar, Heidelberg University, winter '10/'11, (with Michael Gertz)

• Text Mining, seminar, Heidelberg University, summer '10, (with Michael Gertz)

Supervision

I am currently (co-)supervising / supervised three PhD students at BCAI:

• Mingyang Wang, co-supervised with Hinrich Schütze (LMU Munich),  Heike Adel-Vu and Lukas Lange (2022-) 

• Subhash Chundra Pujari, co-supervised with Michael Gertz (Heidelberg University) and Annemarie Friedrich (2019-2023)

• Lukas Lange, co-supervised with Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University) and Heike Adel-Vu (2019-2022)

  • Robust input representations for low-resource information extraction (pdf)

(Co-)supervised Bachelor and Master Theses

I co-supervise various Bachelor and Master theses at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Finished ones are:

• Fabian Klein: A User Behavior-Aware Cache Eviction Strategy for Large-Scale Mail Storage Systems (MA, 2023-2024, @ 1und1 Mail & Media Development & Technology GmbH)

• Bileam Scheuvens: LLM-based Translation into Logic Programs for Visual Question Answering (BA, 2023-2024, @ Bosch Center for AI) 

• Michael Harter: Generierung interaktiver Prüfungsfragen für E-Learning-Videos mithilfe von Large Language Models (BA, 2023-2024, @ Hedgehog Software GmbH)

• Romane Hatz: Detecting and Mitigating Temporal Drift in Machine Learning Models (MA, 2023-2024, @ KPMG AG)

• Yuliia Cormier: A QA-based Search Engine for Bachelor and Master Theses Documents (BA, 2023, @ inovex GmbH)

I (co-)supervised several Bachelor and Master theses at Heidelberg University and Saarland University:

Saarland University (2017-2018)

• Ioannis Dikeoulias: Analyzing and Predicting the Stability of Knowledge Base Properties (BA, 2018)

• Fariha Nasir: Emotional Timelines in Novels (MA, 2018)

• Faraz Ahmad: Improved Multilingual Temporal Tagging with HeidelTime (MA, 2018)

• Prabal Agarwal: Time-aware Named Entity Disambiguation (MA, 2017)

• Rosita Andrade: Times on Maps – Extracting, Analyzing and Explaining Dates in Street Names Across the World (MA, 2017)

• Tatiana Anikina: Sentiment and Emotion Movie Script Annotation (BA, 2017)

• Lukas Lange Time in Newspaper – A Large-Scale Analysis of Temporal Expressions in News Corpora (BA, 2017)

Heidelberg University (2009 – 2014)

• Christian Karr: Effektive Indexierung von räumlichen und zeitlichen Daten (BA, 2014)

• Andreas Zerkowitz: Aufbau und Analyse eines Event-Repository aus Wikipedia (BA, 2013)

• Viktor Bersch: Methoden zur temporalen Analyse und Exploration von Reviews (BA, 2013)

• Daniel Egenolf: Extraktion und Normalisierung von Personeninformation für die Kombination mit Spatio-temporal Events (BA, 2013)

• Tobias Limpert: Verbesserung der spatio-temporal Event Extraktion und ihrer Kontextinformation durch Relationsextraktionsmethoden (BA, 2013)

• Marek Walkowiak: Gazetteer-gestützte Erkennung und Disambiguierung von Toponymen in Text (BA, 2013)

• Manuel Kaufmann: Modellierung und Analyse heuristischer und linguistischer Methoden zur verbesserten Eventextraktion (BA, 2012)

• Christian Kapp: HeiPer HeiPer - Person Comparison based on Name Normalization and Spatio-temporal Events (MA, 2012)

• Andreas Fay: Correlation and Exploration of Events (MA, 2012)

• Britta Keller: Ein Event-basiertes Ähnlichkeitsmodell für biomedizinische Dokumente (BA, 2011)

• Frank Tobian: Modell und Rankingverfahren zur Kombination von textueller und geographischer Suche (BA, 2011)

• Marius Iuresi: TempusQuaestio: Modellierung und Implementierung einer temporalen Anfragesprache zur Dokumentensuche (BA, 2010)

• Pavel Popov: GeoDok: Extraktion und Visualisierung von Ortsinformationen in Dokumenten (BA, 2009)