Andreas Marfurt
Lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Risch-Rotkreuz, Zug, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAndreas Marfurt is a lecturer and NLP researcher with 12 years of industry and academic experience, currently teaching and researching natural language processing at HSLU. He holds a PhD from EPFL on interpretable representation learning for abstractive summarization and completed a postdoc at Idiap focused on automatic evaluation of text generation. His work spans hallucination detection, semantic representation learning and practical ML system design, grounded in earlier roles building health-data platforms and full-stack ML deployments. Comfortable moving between foundational research and production-grade engineering, he combines rigorous evaluation methods with applied system thinking—a profile shaped by long-term collaborations across academia, research institutes, and startups in Switzerland.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
German, English, French
Github Skills (13)
google8
ai8
phonetics8
computational-linguistics8
acl7
transformer-models7
machine-learning7
health5
natural-language-processing5
transformers4
health-data4
language-model3
doc2vec2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
idiap/sentence-planner
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Code accompanying the research paper "Sentence-level Planning for Especially Abstractive Summarization", to be presented at the EMNLP 2021 summarization workshop
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
amarfurt/amarfurt.github.io
Jul 2023 - Oct 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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