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.
17 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 (103)
gpt9
nlp9
python9
fairness-ml9
few-shot-learning9
cython9
named-entity-recognition9
scoring9
pytorch9
language-processing9
llm9
inference9
spacy9
turkish9
sentence-transformers9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
isaac-project/h5p-short-answers
Dec 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:29 reviews, 32 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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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