Andreas Niekler
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Mit Akademischem Abschluss at Selbstständig
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Niekler is a research associate and computational humanist at the University of Leipzig with nine years of professional experience building machine learning and data-management methods for semantic text analysis. He develops tools for Computational Humanities and Social Science, notably contributing to the interactive Leipzig Corpus Miner, and investigates how semantic text representations can inform literary studies and scientometrics. Andreas combines rigorous empirical research principles with practical engineering—teaching courses in R and Python while consulting on AI and automated content analysis for academic and industry clients. His background spans a PhD in Informatics and a Diplom in Media Technology, reflecting a blend of theoretical depth and applied media-engineering skills. Beyond academia he runs freelance training and AI strategy work, bringing research-grade methods into operational settings. Colleagues value him for turning complex humanities questions into reproducible, algorithmic workflows that scale.
9 years of coding experience
Diplom-Ingenieur, Media Technology, Diplom-Ingenieur, Media Technology at HTWK Leipzig - Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur LeipzigBachelor of Science - BS, MEdia Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, MEdia Technology at University of the West of ScotlandDoktor (Ph.D.), Informatics, Doktor (Ph.D.), Informatics at Universität Leipzig
English
Github Skills (32)
corenlp9
text-analytics8
quanteda8
r-package7
r7
named-entity-recognition7
parsing7
segmentation7
natural-language-processing7
corpus7
python7
nlp7
textual6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eisioriginal/eu_scepticism_regression
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
processtax/processtax.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 day
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