Jochen Leidner
Professor Of Artificial Intelligence at Coburg University
Coburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJochen Leidner is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and seasoned researcher-engineer who blends deep academic expertise in NLP, information extraction and open-domain question answering with two decades of hands-on systems architecture and productisation experience. He has led and built research sites for Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv and now heads the Advanced Information Access group at Coburg University while holding a Royal Academy of Engineering visiting professorship at Sheffield. Jochen’s work spans ideation to revenue-generating deployments—he sold his first statistical language model in 1996 and has repeatedly translated IP into commercial products and startups. He combines leadership of multidisciplinary teams with teaching and peer review service for top venues (ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR) and funders (H2020, Nature Communications). Based in Coburg, Germany, he brings a rare mix of enterprise R&D management, start-up founding experience, and long-term commitment to explained, responsible AI. A less obvious strength is his sustained track record of incubating practical QA and toponym-resolution systems that rank among best-performing research prototypes.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at The University of EdinburghM.A. Computational Linguistics English Philology Computer Science, M.A. Computational Linguistics English Philology Computer Science at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergManagement/Business, Management/Business at Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strathclyde UniversityM.Phil. Computer Speech Text and Internet Technology, M.Phil. Computer Speech Text and Internet Technology at University of CambridgeLinguistics and Computer Science, Linguistics and Computer Science at Lancaster University
English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
dfa9
automata8
text-editor8
expressions7
sentence7
nfa7
matching7
automaton7
regex-engine7
human-readable7
roberta6
nlp6
cluster-analysis6
suffix-tree6
sentence-similarity6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jochenleidner/ltools
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Information-Access-Research-Group-IARG/biasscanner
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 comments, 13 issues in 3 months
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