Summary
Amir Kargaran is a PhD-trained NLP researcher and engineer with nine years of experience specializing in large language models, multilingual NLP, agents, machine translation and code LLMs. Based in Munich, he has combined academic rigor at LMU’s CIS with industry internships at Hugging Face, Microsoft and SAP, contributing to projects such as FineWeb-2 and FineTranslate. His doctoral work advanced scaling NLP to low-resource languages through multilingual models, corpus creation and practical evaluation methods, and he has supervised bachelor’s and master’s students. Equally comfortable in research and applied settings, Amir bridges prototype development and production-ready tooling, with past contributions to GUI evaluation metrics and open-source demos. He is currently on the job market seeking research or applied NLP roles where he can apply his cross-lingual expertise and LLM engineering experience.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science, PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering - Software, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering - Software at Isfahan University of Technology
Master of Science Computer Engineering - Software, Master of Science Computer Engineering - Software at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, German, Arabic, English