Letitia Parcalabescu
AI Researcher at Aleph Alpha
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLetitia Parcalabescu is an AI researcher and co-founder with 10 years of experience specializing in multimodal LLMs/VLMs, interpretability, and explainability, currently researching at Aleph Alpha and running Explaination Mark. She holds a PhD candidacy in Computational Linguistics from Heidelberg and a strong quantitative background with dual BSc degrees and an MSc in Physics, blending deep theoretical insight with practical ML engineering. At Heidelberg she published a dozen papers, taught and designed courses, and contributed backend engineering to well-known open-source tools like ilastik, improving tracking exports and BigDataViewer integration. Her work sits at the intersection of vision, language, and human-centered explanations, and she also communicates ML ideas as an active ML YouTuber.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Doctoral Candidate in Computational Linguistics (NLP), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Doctoral Candidate in Computational Linguistics (NLP) at Heidelberg UniversityHonterus High School BrasovDAAD German Academic Exchange Service
Github Skills (5)
data-export10
python10
hdf9
machine-learning8
qt8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ilastik/ilastik
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
ilastik-shell, applets, and workflows to string them together.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Letitia primarily contributed to the ilastik project by implementing and modifying backend functionalities related to tracking and data export. They worked on exporting tracking solutions to various formats, including H5-Event-Sequence and MaMuT, and added features for automatic generation of the BigDataViewer XML files. The user also refactored existing export mechanisms by transferring checks for file overwrites to the export plugins and improving the GUI for plugin selection.
to-stringpythonstringilastikmachine-learning
Heidelberg-NLP/counting-probe
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 6 months
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