Markus Flicke
Technical Lead at Scholar Inbox
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Flicke is a Technical Lead and NLP-focused PhD candidate at the University of Tübingen who accelerates scientific discovery by fine-tuning and evaluating LLM agents for idea generation. He founded and continues to lead Scholar Inbox, a research paper recommender with 35k users, coordinating a hybrid team of engineers and students while securing an €800k Volkswagen Foundation grant and winning an AI startup incubator pitch. Markus combines research and production skills—designing novel hierarchical encoder architectures and contributing custom CUDA kernels—to move models from prototype to scalable service. With eight years of engineering experience across academia and research institutions, he blends hands-on coding, PR-driven team leadership, and product instincts to improve how researchers discover and organize knowledge.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Data Science, Bachelor's degree Data Science at Marburg UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning Language Modelling, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning Language Modelling at University of Tübingen
German, English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
arxiv6
filtering4
jupyter-notebook3
python3
notebook3
jupyter3
flask-sqlalchemy1
paths1
flask1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
markus-flicke/VideoPathFromPDF
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
markus-flicke/downloading_ss_datasets
Jun 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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