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<h2>Education</h2>
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<td><span style="font-size:small">1996</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Abitur -&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.asg-hh.de/" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium</span></a><span style="font-size:small">, Hamburg</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">2003</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Dipl.Ing in Computer Science and Engineering -&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.tuhh.de" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">Technical University Hamburg-Harburg</span></a><span style="font-size:small">&nbsp;- Sehr gut/first class</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2004</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">MSc. in Informatics, Learning From Data specialism -&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">University of Edinburgh</span></a><span style="font-size:small">&nbsp;- Distinction</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">9/06-12/06</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Visiting Scholar - Stanford University</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2004-2008</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">PhD. -&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">ICCS</span></a><span style="font-size:small">/School of Informatics/University of Edinburgh</span></td>
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<h2>Working Experience</h2>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">8/96-9/97</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Carer for handicaped people,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.alsterdorf.de/" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">Evangelische Stiftung Alsterdorf</span></a><span style="font-size:small">, Hamburg: Caring for handicaped people in a sheltered workshop (as an alternative to military service)</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">3/98-12/98</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Research Assistant,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">STS</span></a><span style="font-size:small">&nbsp;/ Technical University Hamburg-Harburg: Developed a graphical user interface of a multimedia information system (based on Java) for Political Iconography in an interdisciplinary project together with the Art History department.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2/99-4/99</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Research Intern,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.gl-group.com/start_ns.htm" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">Germanischer Lloyd</span></a><span style="font-size:small">, Hamburg: Developed an object-oriented "pipes and filter" framework and basic components for processing GPS data using Java.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">4/99-8/00</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Project Leader,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.tuhh.de" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">Technical University Hamburg-Harburg</span></a><span style="font-size:small">: Organisation, design and implementation of the university's online lecture evaluation system.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">9/00-4/01</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Software Engineer,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.infoasset.de/" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">infoAsset AG</span></a><span style="font-size:small">, Hamburg: Design and implementation of a Java web-based assessment software providing support for online design and evaluation of recruitment tests.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">11/01-4/02</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Research Intern,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.scr.siemens.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">Siemens Corporate Research</span></a><span style="font-size:small">, Princeton: "Towards marker-less tracking" - dealt with camera pose estimation in an Augmented Reality scenario; instead of permanently having dedicated markers in the field of view, those markers are only used in a training phase in which the system learns 3D coordinates of some real life features; those are in turn used for pose estimation after the markers are removed from the scene; presented project and published paper at ISMAR2002.</span></td>
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<h2>Teaching Experience</h2>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">4/99-4/00</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Teaching Assistant, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg: Taught students basic concepts of computer science in "Computer Science for Engineers"; voted best TA in the department.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">9/05-12/05</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Teaching Assistant, University of Edinburgh, Introduction to Computational Linguistics.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">1/06-3/06</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Teaching Assistant, University of Edinburgh, Data Intensive Linguistics</span></td>
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<h2>Academic Projects</h2>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2/01-5/01</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Student Project: Object/human tracking system in the sports domain; Implemented Background-Substraction, Component-Labeling, Kalman-Filtering and Occlusion-Modelling in a C++ program.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2/03-8/03</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Diploma Thesis: Dealt with Record Linkage in Semantic Networks; incorporating rule-based, statistical, ontology-matching and database-oriented methologies into a Java-based framework; to be used in an academical/commercial knowledge management platform.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">4/04-8/04</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Master Thesis: Towards Structural Evolution of Classifiers; designed a grammar-based Genetic Algorithm that could search for combinations ensemble-based, stacked, co-trained, bagged and boosted classifiers.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">9/04-10/08</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">PhD Thesis: Structured/Relational Prediction and Learning using the Cutting Plane Method.</span></td>
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<td style="vertical-align:top;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2009-2010</span></td>
<td style="vertical-align:top;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Program Committee member for ICML 2010, ACL 2010, CoNLL 2010, Coling 2010, AAAI 2010, COLING 2010, EMNLP 2010&nbsp;</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2008-2009</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Program Committee member for&nbsp;EACL 2009, ICML 2009, EMNLP 2009, CoNLL 2009</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">9/08-6/09</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Co-organizer of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfnjzwsj_32d5qxmbcz" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">Integer Linear Programming for Natural Language Processing Workshop</span></a><span style="font-size:small">&nbsp;at NAACL/HLT 2009.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">5/08-8/08</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Google Summer of Code mentor for&nbsp;</span><a href="http://nltk.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">nltk</span></a></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2007</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Program Committee member&nbsp;EMNLP 2007 (Machine Learning Models and Methods)</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">11/06-6/07</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Co-organizer of the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://nextens.uvt.nl/depparse-wiki/SharedTaskWebsite" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(153, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">CoNLL Shared Task 2007</span></a></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">11/06-12/06</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Program Committee member&nbsp;for HLT-NAACL</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">03/06-01/08</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Organised and lead the Machine Learning reading group at&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small">ICCS</span></a></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">06/05-1/06</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Student Representative in the Computing Committee of the School of Informatics.</span></td>
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<h2>Awards, Scholarships, Achievements</h2>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">08/05</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">1st place in the Learning Language in Logic Competion at ICML 2005, Relation Extraction</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">06/06</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">4th place in CoNLL Multilingual Parsing shared task</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2003-2004</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">EPSRC MSc. Studentship</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">ESRC PhD. +3 Competition Studentship.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Edinburgh-Stanford-Link Studentship</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">2004</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">11/06</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">"Scaling up Inference for NLP: just relax!" given at the NLPLunch, Computer Science Dept., Stanford University</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">02/07</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">"The Cutting Plane Method for Inference in NLP" given at the Edinburgh Research Group for Optimization (ERGO) at School of Mathematics, Edinburgh University</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">03/09</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">"Markov Logic for Natural Language Processing" Invited Talk at the Machine Learning &amp; Natural Language Processing workshop of the SIG Fundamental Problems in AI, Tokyo</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">11/09</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">"Cutting Plane Inference" and "Factorie" Invited Talks at Machine Learning group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">02/10</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">"Factorie" Invited Talks at an ISAT workshop</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">05/10</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">"Ignorant Inference" Invited Talk at the Machine Learning Lunch of the University of Washington</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">07/10</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">"Ignorant Inference" Invited Talk at the Department of Computer Science, IIMAS, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">11/10</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">"Ignorant Inference" Invited Talk at NTT Research, Kyoto, Japan</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">11/10</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">"Ignorant Inference" Invited Talk at the Joint NLP meeting, NAIST, Japan</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">Mother Tongue</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">Fluent</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Japanese</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">Expertise in</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Java, C++, UML, Software Engineering</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">Sound Knowledge in</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Python, SQL, Matlab, XML, HTML, LaTeX, Windows, Unix, Linux, MS Office, C</span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;width:100px"><span style="font-size:small">Basic knowledge</span></td>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">VRML, Pascal, Assembler, Javascript,Perl, Prolog</span></td>
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<h2>Interests</h2>
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<ul style="list-style-type:circle"><li><span style="font-size:small">Producing German Hiphop</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:small">Playing Football and Basketball</span></li></ul>