I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the Foundations of Computational Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
I’ve previously worked at the Visual Analytics Group, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - L3S Research Center, Hanover, Germany, and Semantic Computing Group, CITEC, Bielefeld, Germany.
My research interests include topics such as Conversational AI, Natural Language Understanding, Computational Multimodal Models for Social Media and Web Data. More Info
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Recent publications
Important Updates
(December 2024) Paper on benchmarking Multimodal LLMs accepted at COLING 2025. Checkout the Leaderboard (tab Multimodal)
(November 2024) Paper published at EMNLP 2024
(October 2024) Teaching MSc NLP seminar and BSc Programming 1 at the University of Potsdam, Winter Semester 2024-2025
(August 2024) - Attended PEELx Workshop 2024 organized by Startup Service of University of Potsdam as an idea provider “Custom LLMs for Enterprises”
(June 2024) Presented the dataset paper at ICMR 2024 in Phuket, Thailand
(June 2024) Organized the 3rd MUWS Workshop at ICMR 2024 in Phuket, Thailand
(April 2024) Teaching a lecture on Formal Languages & Automata and a Project Seminar on Evaluating Chat-Optimized Language Models at the University of Potsdam, Summer Semester 2024
(February 2024) Two papers (Paper1, Paper2) published at LREC-COLING 2024
(February 2024) Paper published at SCI-CHAT workshop co-located with EACL 2024
(December 2023) Our paper clembench: A Framework for the Systematic Evaluation of Chat-Optimized Language Models as Conversational Agents is published at EMNLP 2023 - Checkout the clembench Leaderboard
(October 2023) Organized the 2nd MUWS Workshop co-located with CIKM 2023 in Birmingham, UK
(October 2023) Teaching NLP MSc seminar and BSc seminar at the University of Potsdam, Winter Semester 2023-2024
(July 2023) Two papers published at ACL 2023: Paper 1 & Paper 2
(April 2023) Teaching a lecture on Formal Languages & Automata and a Project Seminar on Building Explainable ML Models at the University of Potsdam, Summer Semester 2023
(January 2023) Co-organizer of CLEF CheckThat! Task 1 - Multimodal Claim Detection in Twitter
(October 2022) Teaching NLP lecture and seminar at the University of Potsdam, Winter Semester 2022-2023
(September 2022) Joined University of Potsdam, Computational Linguistics as a postdoctoral researcher
(April 2022) Organized the 3rd CLEOPATRA Workshop co-located with The Web Conference (WWW) 2022
(April 2022) Organized the 1st MUWS Workshop co-located with The Web Conference (WWW) 2022
(April 2021) Organized the 2nd CLEOPATRA Workshop, co-located with The Web Conference (WWW) 2021
(June 2020) Organized the 1st CLEOPATRA Workshop, co-located with Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2020
(September 2019) Joined TIB, Visual Analytics and CLEOPATRA Project- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network as a postdoctoral researcher
(May 2019) Received the doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat) with a grade magna cum laude for the dissertation: Learning Multilingual Semantic Parsers for Question Answering over Linked Data. A comparison of neural and probabilistic graphical model architectures, supervised by Philipp Cimiano, Bielefeld University, Germany.