Projects

Master thesis: compact monolingual Transformer encoders for 16 languages. TiME-m keeps 98.4% of XLM-R-Large's task score at 3.9× lower latency.

Explainable NLP system that helps clinicians assess ADHD from German primary school reports, published in CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts.

Pipeline that generates synthetic handwritten math solutions, including corrections and scan artifacts, to train and stress-test OCR models.

Seminar project at the KIT Intuitive Robots Lab comparing two micro-expression recognition approaches on accuracy and explainability.

Bachelor thesis: generating hard-to-detect outliers in high-dimensional data by searching a learned low-dimensional manifold.

Six secure design patterns from the SEI catalog, each with a small runnable Java example: where the security check lives and what can go wrong.