CV
Education
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2021 - 2024 Master of Arts
University of Zurich, Switzerland - Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (major)
- Neuroinformatics (minor)
- Thesis: Measuring Reading Comprehension and Text Comprehensibility Using a Touchscreen Application
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2017 - 2021 Bachelor of Arts
University of Zurich, Switzerland - Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (major)
- Comparative Linguistics (minor)
- Thesis: Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Items with Large Language Models
Research
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2024/10 - now PhD student
MaiNLP, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich, Germany - Cognitively inspired NLP
- Eye-tracking
- NLP for education
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2022/03 - 2024/07 Student assistant
Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Text simplification
- Human evaluation
- Eye-tracking
Teaching
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2025 NLP and Human Language Processing (instructor)
Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich, Germany - Eye-tracking for NLP
- Master's students in Computational Linguistics
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2024 Trustworthy Data-Centric AI (teaching assistant and co-instructor)
Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich, Germany - Data origin, model behavior, interpretability, evaluation
- Master's students in Computational Linguistics
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2024 Vertiefung der Grundlagen der Computerlinguistik (teaching assistant and co-instructor)
Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich, Germany - Introduction to NLP and deep learning
- Master's students in Computational Linguistics
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2021 - now Information Technology for Libraries (instructor)
Central Library Zurich, Switzerland - CAS/MAS courses (Library and Information Science)
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2023 - 2024 Programming Techniques in Computational Linguistics 2 (co-instructor)
Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Advanced Python programming
- Bachelor's students in Computational Linguistics
Thesis supervision
- Identifying and Tackling Challenges in Swiss German Dependency Parsing
– BSc thesis by Roman Zlatinski, 2025 (advisor) - Evaluating the Robustness of Sentiment Analysis for Indonesian Using Behavioral Testing
– BSc thesis by Maria Patricia Viannisa, 2025 (advisor) - Forecasting Academic Publication Trends in Switzerland: An Analysis of Output Across Major Publishers for Library Collection Development
– MAS thesis by Yannick Städler, 2025 (co-examiner)
Invited talks / guest lectures
- Eye movements and readability
– Guest lecture in a seminar on text simplification, LMU Munich, December 2025 - Automatic readability assessment and text simplification
– Guest lecture in course on Easy Language, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Winterthur), March 2024