Moritz Laurer
Machine Learning Engineer, Member Of Technical Staff at Cohere
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolMoritz Laurer is a Machine Learning Engineer and Member of Technical Staff at Cohere with seven years of experience building and deploying LLM- and VLM-powered solutions across industries. Previously at Hugging Face and as a PhD researcher at VU Amsterdam, he developed instruction-based classifiers and fine-tuned models that have been downloaded over 100 million times from the Hugging Face Hub. He spans the full ML lifecycle—use-case definition, data annotation, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment and inference optimization—and has applied those skills in finance, health, manufacturing, media, retail and the public sector. His academic work demonstrated how instruction-based models can boost validity and data efficiency, and he has a track record of open-sourcing practical models and datasets that bridge research and production. Based in Paris, he combines rigorous research training with hands-on applied ML engineering and policy-oriented experience from European institutions.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Double Master's degree, 1,2, Double Master's degree, 1,2 at Freie Universität BerlinDouble Master's degree, Cum Laude, Double Master's degree, Cum Laude at Sciences PoWashington Semester Program, Foreign Policy, A, Washington Semester Program, Foreign Policy, A at American UniversityPhD, PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor's degree, SOCIAL SCIENCES, 1.5 (among best 5%), Bachelor's degree, SOCIAL SCIENCES, 1.5 (among best 5%) at Universität Augsburg
German, English, French
Github Skills (189)
transformers10
language-model10
sentence10
python10
ui-components10
data-manipulation10
gradio-interface10
datasets10
flax10
self-attention10
deep-learning10
speech10
few-shot-learning10
fairness-ml10
face10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MoritzLaurer/language-barrier-multilingual-transfer
Nov 2022 - Sep 2024
Project repository for the paper "Lowering the Language Knowledge Barrier - Investigating Deep Transfer Learning and Machine Translation for Multilingual Analyses of Political Texts"
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
MoritzLaurer/zeroshot-classifier
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Notebooks for training universal 0-shot classifiers on many different tasks
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 70 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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