Andreas Madaghri-funke
Senior Research Scientist at DeepL
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Madaghri-funke is a Senior Research Scientist at DeepL with eight years of experience specializing in foundation model training, LLMs, machine translation and voice technologies. He progressed from research roles in machine translation and grammatical error correction to leading foundation-model training efforts and DeepL Voice, blending applied research with production-ready model deployment. With a background in ML engineering and AI storytelling from startup work, he brings practical experience in NLG, model deployment and data-driven LLM pipelines. His academic grounding in computer science and earlier work on distributed systems and low-level programming give him a rare mix of systems-level rigor and ML research depth. Based in Cologne, he combines research excellence with hands-on engineering to ship large-scale language and audio models.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Düsseldorf
German, English, French
Github Skills (76)
python10
lda10
deep-learning10
gpu10
word2vec10
transformer10
topic-modeling10
nlp10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
speech-recognition10
labeling9
numpy9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
andifunke/logisim-circuits
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
andifunke/semeval18task12
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:75 commits, 62 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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