Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences:
Natural Language Processing (BA and MA lecture)
summer '25, summer '24, summer '23
Artificial Intelligence (MA lecture)
summer '25, winter '24/'25, summer '24, winter '23/'24, summer '23
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (MA lecture)
summer '25, winter '24/'25, summer '24, winter '23/'24
Datenbanken und Datenkunde 2 (BA lecture, with Prof. Dr. Peer Küppers)
summer '25, winter '24/'25, summer '24, winter '23/'24, summer '23
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (MA lecture, with Prof. Dr. Jan Stöß and Dr. Djerdj Horvat)
summer '25, winter '24/'25, summer '24, winter '23/'24, summer '23
Data Engineering (BA lecture)
winter '24/'25, winter '23/'24
Planung von Informationssystemen (BA lecture)
winter '24/'25, summer '24, winter '23/'24, summer '23
Supervision of Student Projects (Anwendungsprojekte, BA)
summer '25, 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)
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)
Neural Patent Classification beyond Title and Abstract: Leveraging Patent Text and Metadata (pdf)
Lukas Lange, co-supervised with Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University) and Heike Adel-Vu (2019-2022)
Robust input representations for low-resource information extraction (pdf)
I supervise various Bachelor and Master theses at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Finished ones are:
Evaluating the Utility of Vocabulary to Language Learners
(Leonard Paal, MA, 2025 @ HKA)
LLM-based (Multi-)Agent Systems in an Enterprise Context
(Johannes Groß, MA, 2025 @ embraceable Technologies GmbH)
Gestaltung der Persönlichkeitsdimension Humor bei Conversational Agents
(Erik Kuhn, MA, 2025 @ FZI)
Optimization of a RAG Chatbot for Commodity Hardware
(Leon Dietrich, MA, 2025 @ Aunovis GmbH)
Von Daten zu Lösungen: KI-gestützte Ansätze zur effizienten Bearbeitung von Servicevorfällen
(Max Nieser, MA, 2025 @ ARBURG GmbH + Co KG)
Joint Paper based on this thesis:
RAG-basierte Ersatzteilprognose und Lösungsfindung bei Servicevorfällen. Max Niesner, Thomas Steinhart, Jannik Strötgen. AKWI'25.
Multilingual NLP Analysis of the UEFA Euro 2024 Coverage
(Paul Löhr, MA, 2025 @ HKA)
Machine-Learning-gestützte Vorhersage der Migrationsdauer in der modellbasierten Entwicklung von E/E-Architekturen
(Maximilian Dachtler, BA, 2025 @ Vector Informatik GmbH)
Expertensuche für aktives Recruiting in der IT-Beratung am Beispiel der Exxeta AG
(Achim Seelhorst, BA, 2025 @ exxeta)
Transformer-based Biomedical Knowledge Extraction for Risk Factor-Disease Relationships
(Jana Wiegert, MA, 2024 @ MedicalValues)
Einsatz von Legal Question Answering zur Unterstützung der Vertragsprüfung
(Martin Panaget, MA, 2024 @ dmTech)
Anwendung von Large Language Models im Change Control Management
(Niklas Kohl, MA, 2024 @ Roche)
Attention Distillation for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Models
(Julian Aßmann, MA, 2024 @ SAP)
Mulitmodale Fragebeantwortung auf einem Wissensgraphen im Prozessbereich unter Nutzung eines umfangreichen Sprachmodells
(Pascal Brodziak, MA, 2024 @ SAP)
LLM-basiertes Matching für digitales Recruiting
(Benedict Hils, MA, 2024 @ Objektkultur)
Context-aware Task Disengagement Detection using Natural Language Processing for Personalized Digital Wellbeing
(Marc Puikys, BA, 2024 @ HKA)
LLM-basierte Optimierung unternehmensinterner Prozesse
(Moritz Köhn, BA, 2024 @ Bechtle)
Expert Search and Context-Adaptive CVs with Transformers
(Mario Eljuga, MA, 2023-2024, @ exxeta)
Generating Personalised Customer Messages with Large Language Models
(Christian Quindt, MA, 2023-2024, @ dmTech)
A User Behavior-Aware Cache Eviction Strategy for Large-Scale Mail Storage Systems
(Fabian Klein, MA, 2023-2024, @ 1und1 Mail & Media Development & Technology GmbH)
LLM-based Translation into Logic Programs for Visual Question Answering
(Bileam Scheuvens, BA, 2023-2024, @ Bosch Center for AI)
Joint Paper partially based on this thesis:
Explainable Zero-Shot Visual Question Answering via Logic-Based Reasoning. Thomas Eiter, Jan Hadl, Nelson Higuera Ruiz, Lukas Lange, Johannes Oetsch, Bileam Scheuvens, Jannik Strötgen. NeSy'25.
Generierung interaktiver Prüfungsfragen für E-Learning-Videos mithilfe von Large Language Models
(Michael Harter, BA, 2023-2024, @ Hedgehog Software GmbH)
Detecting and Mitigating Temporal Drift in Machine Learning Models
(Romane Hatz, MA, 2023-2024, @ KPMG AG)
A QA-based Search Engine for Bachelor and Master Theses Documents
(Yuliia Cormier, BA, 2023, @ inovex GmbH)
I (co-)supervised several Bachelor and Master theses at Heidelberg University and Saarland University:
Saarland University (2017-2018)
Analyzing and Predicting the Stability of Knowledge Base Properties
(Ioannis Dikeoulias, BA, 2018)
Emotional Timelines in Novels
(Fariha Nasir, MA, 2018)
Improved Multilingual Temporal Tagging with HeidelTime
(Faraz Ahmad, MA, 2018)
Time-aware Named Entity Disambiguation
(Prabal Agarwal, MA, 2017)
Times on Maps – Extracting, Analyzing and Explaining Dates in Street Names Across the World
(Rosita Andrade, MA, 2017)
Sentiment and Emotion Movie Script Annotation
(Tatiana Anikina, BA, 2017)
Time in Newspaper – A Large-Scale Analysis of Temporal Expressions in News Corpora
(Lukas Lange, BA, 2017)
Heidelberg University (2009 – 2014)
Effektive Indexierung von räumlichen und zeitlichen Daten
(Christian Karr, BA, 2014)
Aufbau und Analyse eines Event-Repository aus Wikipedia
(Andreas Zerkowitz, BA, 2013)
Methoden zur temporalen Analyse und Exploration von Reviews
(Viktor Bersch, BA, 2013)
Extraktion und Normalisierung von Personeninformation für die Kombination mit Spatio-temporal Events
(Daniel Egenolf, BA, 2013)
Verbesserung der spatio-temporal Event Extraktion und ihrer Kontextinformation durch Relationsextraktionsmethoden
(Tobias Limpert, BA, 2013)
Gazetteer-gestützte Erkennung und Disambiguierung von Toponymen in Text
(Marek Walkowiak, BA, 2013)
Modellierung und Analyse heuristischer und linguistischer Methoden zur verbesserten Eventextraktion
(Manuel Kaufmann, BA, 2012)
HeiPer HeiPer - Person Comparison based on Name Normalization and Spatio-temporal Events
(Christian Kapp, MA, 2012)
Correlation and Exploration of Events
(Andreas Fay, MA, 2012)
Ein Event-basiertes Ähnlichkeitsmodell für biomedizinische Dokumente
(Britta Keller, BA, 2011)
Modell und Rankingverfahren zur Kombination von textueller und geographischer Suche
(Frank Tobian, BA, 2011)
TempusQuaestio: Modellierung und Implementierung einer temporalen Anfragesprache zur Dokumentensuche
(Marius Iuresi, BA, 2010)
GeoDok: Extraktion und Visualisierung von Ortsinformationen in Dokumenten
(Pavel Popov, BA, 2009)