Projects
- BMW IPA and Traffic Jam Assistant (March 2023 — Present)
- Role: AI Expert - NLP & Conversational AI
- Responsibilities:
- Architecture design and code integration for GPT-based dialogue generation.
- Institute: BMW Group, Munich, Germany
- BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant: CarExpert (August 2022 — Present)
- Role: AI Expert - NLP & Conversational AI
- Responsibilities:
- Architecture design, code integration and deployment of GPT-based dialogue system (40% time).
- Technical project management (60% time).
- Institute: BMW Group, Munich, Germany
- Large language model based conversational AI (February 2022 — July 2022)
- Role: Component lead (generative dialogue)
- Responsibilities:
- Led the generative dialogue team.
- Publishing research paper into top scientific conferences and to assist and guide the Machine Reading Comprehension team.
- Institute: Fraunhofer IAIS, Dresden, Germany
- OpenGPT-X (December 2021 — July 2022)
- Role: Component lead (generative dialogue)
- Responsibilities:
- Leading and guiding the generative dialogue system team.
- Leveraged large-scale language models for developing dialogue systems for industry use cases.
- Institute: Fraunhofer IAIS, Dresden, Germany
- DP-DHL Machine Reading Comprehension on Finance-Wiki (August 2020 — April 2021)
- Role: Applied researcher
- Responsibilities:
- Implemented the Machine Reading Comprehension pipeline.
- Developed UI for the conversational system.
- Institute: Fraunhofer IAIS, Dresden, Germany
- KI.NRW: COVID-19 Question Answering (August 2020 — December 2021)
- Role: Applied researcher
- Responsibilities:
- Refactored the KGQA pipeline.
- Worked on the UI enhancement of the question answering system.
- Institute: Fraunhofer IAIS, Dresden, Germany
- Answer-KiNG: Deutsch Machine Reading Comprehension (March 2021 — July 2022)
- Role: Applied researcher
- Responsibilities:
- Partially lead the project for 6 months, after the previous leader left the organzation.
- Implemented the initial version of the German MRC pipeline.
- Institute: Fraunhofer IAIS, Dresden, Germany
- Climate Change Bot (August 2020 — December 2021)
- Role: Component lead and applied researcher
- Responsibilities:
- Developed data crawlers to extract texts from scholarly articles.
- Implemented the MRC pipeline for the climate change bot.
- Implemented and extended the CDQA-based data annotation tool.
- Lead the work to publication (IJCAI-ECAI 2022 - AI for good track).
- Institute: Fraunhofer IAIS, Dresden, Germany
- Volkswagen Emphatic Dialogue System (November 2019 — December 2019)
- Role: Student research assistant
- Responsibilities:
- Trained the Tacotron model to generate speech from text.
- Institute: Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany
- Volkswagen Knowledge Driven Dialogue System (August 2018 — December 2019)
- Role: Student research assistant
- Responsibilities:
- Implemented the initial version of the MRC system.
- Institute: Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany