Bio

I am currently a doctoral researcher at GippLab, the Chair for Scientific Information Analytics, at Universität Göttingen, under the supervision of Dr. Jan Philip Wahle and PD Dr. Terry Ruas. My PhD programme is part of the EDIKILEX Verbundprojekt. My research focuses on Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

Before joining GippLab, I was a research associate at UKP Lab, at Technische Universität Darmstadt. I earned my Master's degree in Speech and Language Processing from Universität Konstanz, where I was supervised by Prof. Dr. Prof. Andreas Spitz and Prof. Dr. Diego Frassinelli. I also hold a Bachelor's degree in Germanic Linguistics with a specialisation in Computational Linguistics from Nankai University, during which I spent a significant exchange year at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

If you are interested in collaborating on compelling NLP topics, please feel free to email me.

News & Updates

2026

2025

  • September: I will be offering the research lecture "Introduction to Scientific Work" (EiwA: EinfĂĽhrung in wissenschaftliches Arbeiten) again in the 2025/26 winter term with my colleague, Dr. Thomas Arnold, to explore the AI-assisted research workflow simulation from the HCI perspective.
  • March: I started working on the Collaborative AI-Assisted Research Environment (CARE) project, investigating human-agent collaboration for peer-feedback generation and AI-assisted essay assessment within the AI4Science field.

2024

  • October: I will be teaching the new course "Introduction to Scientific Work" (EinfĂĽhrung in wissenschaftliches Arbeiten) offered by the UKP Lab for the first time in the 2024/25 winter term.
  • May: I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the UKP Lab for my PhD starting in Summer 2024.

Short CV

If you would like a full version of my resume, please contact me by email.

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Göttingen, Germany

    Mar. 2026 — Present

    Focus on Reasoning Adaptation and Mechanistic Interpretability in Historical Low-Resource Settings.
    Supervisors: Dr. Jan Philip Wahle and PD Dr. Terry Ruas

  2. M.A. in Speech and Language Processing, University of Konstanz, Germany

    Oct. 2020 — Sep. 2023

    Title of thesis: DistillDetox: Knowledge Distillation for Improved Text Detoxification (1.0/ 5.0)

    Graduated with distinction, Advisors: A. Spitz, D. Frassinelli.

  3. B.A. Study Abroad, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

    Oct. 2018 — Sep. 2019

    Germanic Linguistics with a focus on Theoretical Linguistics and Computational Linguistics

  4. B.A. in Germanic Linguistics & Computational Linguistics, Nankai University, PR. China

    Sep. 2016 — Aug. 2020

    Title of Thesis: Evaluation of the Machine Translation of Chinese Idioms Into German (written in German)

    Advisors: Dr. Yingbin Ma.

Professional Experience

  1. Research Project Associate, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

    Sep. 2024 — Feb. 2026

    Research focus: Human–AI collaboration, LLM/Agent-as-a-Judge for Educational Applications. Teaching assistant joint with Dr. Thomas Arnold and Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych at UKP Lab. Software development for the CARE and algorithm development for the LLMentor project.

  2. NLP Engineer, BITE GmbH, Germany

    Aug. 2022 — Jul. 2024

    Key Responsibilities and Projects: Conversational AI for SaaS E-Recruitment Service, LLM-based Text Writing Assistant, Textual Data Engineering & Augmentation.

  3. Research Assistant, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    Sep. 2023 — Jan. 2024

    I work on a doctoral research proposal under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Färber, mainly on: Citation-aware LLM, Hallucination Detection & Reduction in Generative AI Models.

  4. IT Intern, Volkswagen Automatic Transmission (Tianjin) Co. Ltd., PR. China

    2019. Sep — Feb. 2020

    Key Responsibilities: Data Analysis, Internal System Maintenance, Annotation of an Internal Automotive Terminology Corpus (DE-EN-CN).

My skills

  • Programming
    Python, JavaScript, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, R, Shell, Docker, HTML, CSS
  • Software
    LaTeX, Markdown, reStructuredText, Microsoft Office
  • Languages
    English (C2), German (C2), Mandarin, Jin Chinese, Cantonese (Good Proficiency)

Research

Research Interests

  • LLM-as-a-Judge & LLM-based Decision Making
  • Mechanistic Interpretability
  • Low-Resource NLP & Cross-Lingual Alignment
  • Knowledge & Reasoning Distillation

Teaching

  • SS2026: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing, University of Göttingen (Joint with GippLab members)
  • WS2025/2026: Introduction to Scientific Workflow (EinfĂĽhrung in wissenschaftliches Arbeiten), TU Darmstadt (Joint with Dr. Thomas Arnold)
  • WS2024/2025: Introduction to Scientific Workflow (EinfĂĽhrung in wissenschaftliches Arbeiten), TU Darmstadt (Joint with Prof. Iryna Gurevych)

Mentorship

  • Mithusan Naguleswaran, B.Sc. Student in Computer Science (Joint with Qian Ruan), TU Darmstadt (2025)

Publications

Personal Life

Outside of Work

When I'm not deep in research, you can find me indulging in aerobic sports such as hiking, long-distance jogging and trail/ enduro cycling. I'm also an avid fan of competitive sports. Whether it's cheering for the San Antonio Spurs or rooting for Team Vitality in esports.

Cycling in the trails Road cycling ride

Language Learning

Beyond my endeavours in approaching languages via machines, I have a keen interest in learning natural languages and exploring their dialects in a traditional way. I am currently working on Japanese, Cantonese and Swabian/ Alemannic German, while I'm not yet at the authentic level, I am enjoying the journey and content with progressing at my own pace savouring each new word and phrase as I go.

Alemannic German Cantonese

Get in Touch

If you have any questions, are interested in my research, or would like to discuss potential collaborations in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, or Machine Learning, I'd love to hear from you.

The best way to reach me is via email. Please feel free to write to me at: wywjobs@gmail.com. I make an effort to respond to all emails promptly.