Ramon Ziai
Principal Engineer (NLP) at University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolRamon Ziai is a Principal Engineer specializing in NLP with 17 years of experience applying computational linguistics to real-world education problems. He leads the design and productionization of NLP systems at bettermarks GmbH, moving prototypes into scalable classroom-ready tools while practicing DevOps and mentoring teams. His background includes a PhD and extensive research at the University of Tübingen, where he led projects on automatic assessment and interactive feedback for foreign-language teaching. Ramon bridges deep academic insight and product engineering, maintaining active research collaborations as a university affiliate while shipping commercial solutions. Notably, his career blends long-term corpus and resource development (e.g., GermaNet-related work) with hands-on deployment of state-of-the-art models for assessment tasks. Based in Tübingen, he combines research rigor with practical impact in digital education.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at Eberhard Karls Universität TübingenM.A., Computational Linguistics, M.A., Computational Linguistics at University of Tübingen
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Github Skills (73)
gpt9
nlp9
python9
few-shot-learning9
cython9
named-entity-recognition9
pytorch9
llm9
inference9
openai9
artificial-intelligence9
amd9
text-classification9
llama9
natural-language-processing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
isaac-project/isaac-sas-backend
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Short Answer Scoring backend, capable of training and prediction over HTTP requests. Built on sklearn, fastapi and ONNX. Used in the ISAAC project (https://ramonziai.github.io/isaac-website).
Contributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 92 commits in 1 year 5 months
backendfastapionnxsklearn
ramonziai/errant
Sep 2020 - Apr 2024
ERRor ANnotation Toolkit: Automatically extract and classify grammatical errors in parallel original and corrected sentences.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 7 months
nlpparallelgrammaticalsentenceserror
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