René Knaebel
Sr. Data Scientist IT Consultant
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRené Knaebel is a Senior Data Scientist and NLP research engineer with 11 years of experience combining academic rigor and production-grade engineering, currently consulting at Lufthansa Industry Solutions while finishing a PhD in Computational Linguistics. His background in business informatics and cognitive systems enables him to bridge research, product requirements, and scalable backend development for large linguistic datasets. He has driven NLP tooling and statistical analysis for national-scale projects like the DWDS dictionary and held research roles at the University of Potsdam, bringing both deep learning and classical ML expertise to real-world language resources. René’s profile blends hands-on software development at companies such as SAP with sustained academic work, and he’s comfortable translating complex linguistic models into reliable, deployable systems. An understated strength is his experience teaching and mentoring, which helps him communicate technical ideas across interdisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at University of Potsdam
German, English, French
Github Skills (20)
accident-detection10
satellite10
satellite-images10
machine-learning9
parser9
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
coreference-resolution9
deep-learning8
bert6
phonetics5
theory5
acl4
computational-linguistics3
browser3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rknaebel/NeuralEDUSeg
Feb 2022 - Mar 2024
A toolkit for discourse segmentation (EDU segmentation).
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
edudiscourseedu-segmentationdiscourse-segmentationsegmentation
MLCogUP/nspeech
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Project on neural speech synthesis
Contributions:61 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
speech-synthesis
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