Teaching

• Neural Networks Instructor, University of Hamburg
• Seminar Understanding Large Language Models Instructor, University of Hamburg

• Mechanistic Interpretability of Vision-Language Models (Topic) Sergio Lanza, PhD, University of Hamburg
• Explainable Reinforcement Learning (Topic) Wenhao Lu, PhD, University of Hamburg
• Explainable Speech Processing (Topic) Julia Gacho, PhD, University of Hamburg
• Methods for Human-Robot Interaction by Distinguishing and Clarifying Uncertainty, Vagueness, and Ambiguity (Tentative Title) Xiaowen Sun, PhD, University of Hamburg
• On the Ranking Behavior of Large Language Models in Numerical Comparisons Hans Hergen Lehmann, MSc, University of Hamburg
• Continual Disfluency Marker Training: Improving Performance on Impaired and Disfluent Speech Henri-Leon Kordt, MSc, University of Hamburg
• Interpreting Looped Transformers for Systematic Generalization Archit Sharma, MSc, University of Hamburg

Courses

• Proseminar Artificial Intelligence Instructor, University of Hamburg
• Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence Guest Lecturer, University of Hamburg
• Explaining Vision And Language Models: A Concept-Based Approach Co-presenter, Tutorial
• LLM+XAI Reading Group Organizer, University of Hamburg

Thesis Supervision

• Methods for Downstream Continual Learning with Foundation Models Kyra Ahrens, PhD, University of Hamburg
• Interpretability in Large Language Models: Explaining the Creation of Harmful Content Using Feature Attribution Methods Melissa Niemeier, MSc, University of Hamburg
• Continual Learning in Panoptic Segmentation with Mixture of Expert Adapters Vidushi Rawat, MSc, University of Hamburg
• Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Methods as a Mixture of Experts for Continual Learning Bela Schindler, BSc, University of Hamburg
• Expert Specialization in Mixture of Expert Models Jeremy Herbst, MSc, University of Hamburg

Courses

• Neural Networks Guest Lecturer, University of Hamburg
• LLM+XAI Reading Group Organizer, University of Hamburg
• Bio-Inspired AI Seminar Supervisor, University of Hamburg
• WISDUM Reading Group Organizer, University of Hamburg

Thesis Supervision

• Active Vision for Embodied Agents Using Reinforcement Learning Mengdi Li, PhD, University of Hamburg
• Length Generalization on Multi-Digit Integer Addition with Transformers Imran Ibrahimli, MSc, University of Hamburg
• Concept-Based Explanation for Continual Learning Models Priscilla Cortese, MSc, University of Milan
• LeoLM: Evaluating and Enhancing German Language Proficiency in Pretrained Large Language Models Björn Plüster, MSc, University of Hamburg → now co-founder of ellamind 🏆 LeoLM is the first comprehensive German LLM suite

Courses

• Neural Networks Guest Lecturer, University of Hamburg
• Neural Networks Seminar Supervisor, University of Hamburg
• Bio-Inspired AI Seminar Supervisor, University of Hamburg
• WISDUM Reading Group Organizer, University of Hamburg

Thesis Supervision

• Continual Learning for Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation Lennart Bengtson, MSc, University of Hamburg
• Multivariate Normal Methods in Pre-trained Models for Continual Learning Hans Hergen Lehmann, BSc, University of Hamburg 🏆 TMLR
• Generalization of Transformer-Based Models on Visual Question Answering Tasks Frederic Voigt, MSc, University of Hamburg
• Improving Compositional Generalization By Learning Concepts Individually Ramtin Nouri, MSc, University of Hamburg

Courses

• Neural Networks Guest Lecturer, University of Hamburg
• Neural Networks Seminar Supervisor, University of Hamburg
• Bio-Inspired AI Seminar Supervisor, University of Hamburg
• WISDUM Reading Group Organizer, University of Hamburg

Thesis Supervision

• Learning Concepts a Developmental Lifelong Learning Approach to Visual Question Answering Ramin Farkhondeh, BSc, University of Hamburg
• Benchmarking Faithfulness: Towards Accurate Natural Language Explanations in Vision-Language Tasks Jakob Ambsdorf, MSc, University of Hamburg → now PhD student at University of Copenhagen

Courses

• Neural Networks Seminar Supervisor, University of Hamburg
• Bio-Inspired AI Seminar Supervisor, University of Hamburg
• WISDUM Reading Group Organizer, University of Hamburg

Thesis Supervision

• Tackling The Binding Problem And Compositional Generalization In Multimodal Language Learning Caspar Volquardsen, BSc, University of Hamburg 🏆 ICANN 2022
• Learning Bidirectional Translation Between Robot Actions and Linguistic Descriptions Markus Heidrich, BSc, University of Hamburg

Courses

• Neural Networks Seminar Supervisor, University of Hamburg
• Bio-Inspired AI Seminar Supervisor, University of Hamburg
• WISDUM Reading Group Organizer, University of Hamburg

Thesis Supervision

• Using the Reformer for Efficient Summarization Yannick Wehr, BSc, University of Hamburg
• Generalization in Multi-Modal Language Learning from Simulation Aaron Eisermann, BSc, University of Hamburg 🏆 IJCNN 2021
• Commonsense Validation and Explanation Christian Rahe, BSc, University of Hamburg

Courses

• AI Reading Group Organizer, The Australian National University

Courses

• Spatial Reasoning Tea Co-Organizer, University of Bremen

Courses

• Spatial Reasoning Tea Co-Organizer, University of Bremen

Courses

• Spatial Reasoning Tea Co-Organizer, University of Bremen

Courses

• Mathematics III Teaching Assistant, University of Bremen

Courses

• Linear Algebra II Teaching Assistant, University of Bremen
• Linear Algebra I + II Seminar Organizer, University of Bremen

Courses

• Linear Algebra I Teaching Assistant, University of Bremen