Felicia Körner

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I’m an ELLIS PhD student in Natural Language Processing at MaiNLP lab (LMU Munich), supervised by Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank, and co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Anna Korhonen. I am also associated with the Munich Center for Machine Learning.

I aim to build robust NLP models which work well in low-resource settings and for a variety of languages; the focus of my PhD is on modular multilingual language modeling. I’m also interested in situated language understanding and dialogue systems, a result of my industry experience in the conversational AI space.

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 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.

news

Jan 17, 2025 I will be traveling to COLING 2025!
Jan 07, 2025 Check out our preprint, Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers
Oct 24, 2024 Happy to announce Prof. Dr. Anna Korhonen is my secondary ELLIS supervisor!
Oct 01, 2024 Started my PhD candidacy at MaiNLP today
Jul 02, 2024 Check out my quote in the ELLIS Announcement of the 2023/2024 PhD cohort