Robin Schäfer
Data Scientist
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRobin Schäfer is a data scientist and computational linguist based in Berlin with eight years of experience bridging academic research and applied NLP, currently working on GenAI at Bundesdruckerei. He is finishing a PhD in argument mining at the Discourse Lab, bringing deep expertise in discourse-level NLP, experimental linguistics, and applied research engineering. Robin's background includes multiple research and development roles at Universität Potsdam and cultural heritage tech work at the Staatsbibliothek, showing a knack for turning linguistic insights into production-ready tools. Comfortable in both research labs and industry teams, he combines rigorous experimental methods with practical GenAI deployment experience. An understated strength is his history of long-term collaboration across labs and institutions, which fuels robust, reproducible solutions to complex language understanding problems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Experimental Linguistics, Master of Science - MS, Experimental Linguistics at Universität PotsdamBachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistik, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistik at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
German, English, French
Github Skills (14)
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
ocr9
acl8
natural-language-processing6
sparql4
java4
intelligent4
uima3
machine-learning3
entity-linking2
active-learning2
semantic2
knowledge-management1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
qurator-spk/sbb_ocr_postcorrection
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Two-Step Approach to OCR Post-Correction
Contributions:118 commits, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
ocrpostcorrectionqurator
RobinSchaefer/tweet-crawler
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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