I hold a PhD in Natural Language Processing from the University of Würzburg, Germany, where I was advised by Goran Glavaš (University of Würzburg) and Ivan Vulić (University of Cambridge). My research focused on robust and scalable cross-lingual transfer. Before that, I obtained my B.Sc. in Finance and interned at Goldman Sachs in London. Next to my research, I sometimes contribute to open source projects like telescope.nvim. You can find more info on my CV.
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| July, 2025 | I successfully defended my PhD thesis "Robust and Scalable Cross-Lingual Transfer" and was awarded my PhD with summa cum laude. Our paper Fleurs-SLU: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark for Spoken Language Understanding, from my research visit at Mila, got accepted to CoLM. |
| May, 2025 | Three of our papers were accepted to ACL 2025:
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| September, 2024 | I have started my 3 months research internship on massively multilingual spoken language understanding with David Adelani at Mila, Montreal. |
| June, 2024 | Our paper Self-Distillation for Model Stacking Unlocks Cross-Lingual NLU in 200+ Languages is out! This was joint work with Philipp Borchert, Ivan Vulić, and Goran Glavaš during my research visit in Cambridge. |
| May, 2024 | I will be doing a research visit in the Language Technology Lab at the University of Cambridge hosted by Ivan Vulić! |
| Jan, 2024 | I started my 4-month internship at NEC Laboratories Europe with Chia-Chien Hung and Carolin Lawrence. |
| Oct, 2023 | Our paper "One For All & All For One: Bypassing Hyperparameter Tuning with Model Averaging for Cross-Lingual Transfer" was accepted to Findings of EMNLP! |
| Sep, 2023 | I gave an invited talk about my work on robust and scalable cross-lingual transfer at the Language Science and Technology department of Uni Saarland. |