Summary
Roland Roller is a Senior Consultant and researcher with 7+ years specializing in natural language processing and machine learning, focused on biomedical and clinical information extraction. Based at DFKI in Berlin, he leads and manages multi-lingual projects (KEEPHA, PRIMA-AI, SmartNTx, ADBoard, KIBATIN, Medinym) that blend text analytics, ontology-driven methods and trustworthy clinical decision support. His PhD work on relation extraction from MEDLINE using distant supervision and UMLS underpins a research-to-project trajectory that bridges academic rigor with applied healthcare solutions. While originally trained as a software engineer, he now concentrates on project management and research rather than hands-on engineering, making him a strong collaborator for interdisciplinary clinical NLP initiatives.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Processing at The University of Sheffield
Diplom (eq. to Master), Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Diplom (eq. to Master), Computer Science, Computational Linguistics at Universität des Saarlandes
Vordiplom (similar to Bachelor), Computer Science, Vordiplom (similar to Bachelor), Computer Science at University of Trier
German, English, French