About me

Short Biography

Florian is a Junior Research Group Leader at the CAISA group at University of Bonn, led by Lucie Flek, as part of The Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. His current research focus is on AI alignment and safety issues.

Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Language Intelligence & Information Retrieval lab at KU Leuven, led by Marie-Francine Moens, where he worked on learning to plan for language modeling from unlabeled data. He received his PhD from EPFL and worked in the Natural Language Understanding group at Idiap Research Institute led by James Henderson. His PhD thesis aims to decrease the costs of natural language understanding in terms of processing time (CMOW sentence embeddings and HyperMixer), required labeled data, and hyperparameter tuning. During his master’s studies, he worked as a student research assistant with Ansgar Scherp at Leibniz Information Centre for Economics - ZBW. He studied several NLP-related topics like topical document classification in digital libraries and citation recommendation.