Summary
Andreas Rücklé is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Search in Berlin with 12 years of experience bridging NLP research and production search systems. He focuses on efficiency in NLP and rigorous system evaluation, actively shaping the field as an area chair for the Efficient NLP track at EMNLP (2021–2023) and co-organizer of Eval4NLP 2023. A former PhD researcher and senior staff member at UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt, he combines deep academic expertise with hands-on engineering from a prior decade of freelance software development for agencies like Ogilvy and SYZYGY. Andreas is a member of the ACL Efficient NLP working group and has a consistent record of organizing community efforts around simple, sustainable NLP. Known for translating evaluation insights into practical search improvements, he brings a rare mix of research leadership and production-focused engineering.
12 years of coding experience