Felicia Körner

I’m an ELLIS PhD student in Natural Language Processing at MaiNLP lab (LMU Munich), supervised by Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank.

I’m interested in building robust NLP models which work well in low-resource settings and for a variety of languages. I’m also interested in situated language understanding and dialogue systems.

In 2020, I obtained an MSE from Johns Hopkins University in Computer Science, with a focus on Human Language Technology. I was advised by Prof. Dr. Philipp Koehn, and conducted independent research on the topic of parallel corpus filtering for the purpose of machine translation.

During my studies, I worked as a software engineer, both frontend and backend, at Big Huge Games, IDIES, and FAST 3D.

After graduation, I was a Machine Learning Researcher at Rasa Technologies, working on an open-source framework for conversational AI. After that, I joined Alana AI, and developed a virtual assistant for stroke patients as part of the RES-Q+ project.

In my free time, I’m an avid runner, and always happy to geek out about running news, or chat about outdoor endeavours.