Lukas Edman
Postdoctoral Researcher at Technical University of Munich
Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolLukas Edman is a postdoctoral researcher and computational linguist with eight years of experience specializing in low-resource NLP and character-level models. Currently based at the Technical University of Munich after a postdoc at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and a PhD from the University of Groningen, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on experimentation in core NLP problems. His work spans model design for scarce-data scenarios, multilingual processing, and practical tooling informed by teaching and research technician roles early in his career. Known for exploring character-level approaches that often bypass heavy data requirements, he brings a pragmatic, engineering-minded perspective to advancing language technology.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenTechnical University of MunichComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Puget SoundDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Linguistics at University of Groningen
English, German
Github Skills (12)
fairseq4
sequence-to-sequence3
natural-language-processing3
sequence3
machine-learning2
huggingface2
deep-learning2
transformers2
language-model1
large-language-models1
generative-ai1
seq2seq1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Leukas/Leukas.github.io
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Leukas/SDD
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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