Summary
Luke Bates is a computational linguist and ML researcher with 8 years of experience, currently a PhD candidate and researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt and an NLP/ML researcher at UKP. He combines academic rigor—evidenced by a visible Google Scholar profile—with hands-on engineering: building annotation systems, training deep models for English and Korean, and implementing algorithms from scratch. Fluent in Korean and proficient in Japanese, he has bridged language and technical gaps as a translator, editor for high-impact journals, and instructor of machine learning to faculty and grad students. His background spans industry and academia, from chatbot optimization and product-style supervision at Atlas Labs to quantitative biology editing at Chung-Ang University, highlighting an uncommon mix of language expertise, pedagogy, and applied ML.
7 years of coding experience
Master of Arts (M.A.), Computational Linguistics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Computational Linguistics at Seoul National University
Korean Language and Literature, Korean Language and Literature at Sogang University
Korean Language and Literature, Korean Language and Literature at Hallym University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Japanese Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Japanese Language and Literature at Michigan State University
English, Korean, Japanese