Carolin Lawrence
Senior Manager & Chief Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolCarolin Lawrence is a Senior Manager and Chief Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe with 11 years of experience advancing human-centric AI, specializing in NLP, explainable AI, and safer large language models. She earned a PhD with highest distinction from Heidelberg University for work on generative AI trained with human-feedback reinforcement learning and has a strong publication record at ACL, EMNLP, AAAI and ICLR. At NEC she has progressed from research scientist to group manager and now leads a team translating cutting-edge ML and RL research into trustworthy, user-centered systems. A seasoned program committee senior area chair for ACL and NAACL, she combines rigorous academic methods with practical leadership in industrial research. Colleagues describe her work as blending counterfactual-inspired RL innovations with a focus on explainability that helps bridge model capabilities and real-world user needs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
nlp10
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
bert9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
decoder9
speech-recognition9
transformer9
prediction9
language-model8
jax8
statistical-machine-translation8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
carolinlawrence/carolinlawrence.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:132 commits, 8 PRs, 157 pushes in 3 years 1 month
carolinlawrence/overpass-nlmaps
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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