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PhD

KU Leuven

Departments of Neurosciences and Computer Science

• Natural Language Processing
• Neurolinguistics
• Neural Encoding
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Connected Speech
• Functional MRI

Master of Science in Computer Science

Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

• Natural Language Processing
• Bioinformatics
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Knowledge Graphs

Visiting Student at the Beiko Lab

Dalhousie University

• Metagenomics
• Bioinformatics
• Machine Learning

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

• Bioinformatics
• Software Engineering
• Machine Learning

Best oral presentation

CURE-ND early researchers workshop

PhD fellowship fundamental research

Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

Individual PhD fellowship (120,000€ over the span of four years)

Studienpreis

Anwenderforum für Fernmeldetechnik, Computer, Elektronik und Automatisierung Bonn e.V.

Award for the best master's thesis in applied computer science across multiple universities around Bonn (5,000€)

Deutschlandstipendium

Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

Yearly scholarship awarded to high-scoring students (300€ monthly, 3 years)

Förderpreis der Fördergesellschaft der Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Best Thesis Award)

Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

Award for the best bachelor's thesis in the computer science department (1,000€)

International Study and Training Partnerships scholarship

German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences

Scholarship awarded for studying abroad at the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada (800€ monthly, 4 months)

A comparative analysis of language models for the classification of alzheimer’s disease based on connected speech

To Appear In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Brain Encoding and Decoding, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Investigating Neural Fit Approaches for Sentence Embedding Model Paradigms

Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

STonKGs: A Sophisticated Transformer Trained on Biomedical Text and Knowledge Graphs

Bioinformatics

ProtSTonKGs: A Sophisticated Transformer Trained on Protein Sequences, Text, and Knowledge Graphs

SWAT4HCLS

This list contains only first-authored journal articles and conference papers, for a full list, please see my google scholar profile.