In 2024, I had the honor of receiving the Best Teacher Award from the Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences at Johannes Kepler University Linz for my course on Natural Language Processing. The course materials are available below.

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Teaching Materials

JKU - Natural Language Processing (344.105/6/7/75, VL+UE)

Webpage of the course at Johannes Kepler University Linz

Lecture 1: Text Processing slides
Lecture 2: Document Classification - BoW and Semantic Methods slides
Lecture 3: Word Embedding with Matrix Factorization slides
Lecture 4: Neural Networks for NLP – a Walkthrough slides
Lecture 5: N-Gram Language Models slides
Lecture 6: Neural Word and Sentence Embeddings slides
Lecture 7: Introduction to Large Language Models slides
Lecture 8: Information Retrieval - Principles and Recent Approaches slides
Lecture 9: Fairness and Societal Biases in NLP slides

JKU - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (344.063, KV Special Topics)

Webpage of the course at Johannes Kepler University Linz

Lecture 1: N-gram Embeddings with Convolutional Neural Networks slides
Lecture 2: Recurrent Neural Networks slides
Lecture 3: RNNs: Language and Sequence to Sequence Models slides
Lecture 4: Attention Networks slides
Lecture 5: Transformers slides
Lecture 6: Large Language Models slides

EPFL - Natural Language Processing

Neural Network Approaches to Representation Learning for NLP slides part 1 part 2
Tendencies and Trends in NLP slides

Theses Supervision

PhD

Shahed Masoudian JKU (co-supervision with Prof. Markus Schedl) - ongoing
Deepak Kumar JKU (co-supervision with Prof. Markus Schedl) - ongoing

Master

Cornelia Volaucnik JKU - ongoing
Lukas Wallenböck JKU - ongoing
Fabio Pernegger JKU - ongoing
Linda Ratz JKU
Fathy Shalaby JKU
Konstantin Hebenstreit JKU (co-supervision with Prof. Matthias Samwald)
Selim Fekih EPFL (co-supervision with Prof. Robert West) - peer-reviewed publication
Lukas Hauzenberger JKU - peer-reviewed publication
Christopher Wimmer JKU - peer-reviewed publication
Klara Krieg University of Insbruck - peer-reviewed publications 1 2
Daniel Jeffrey Smarda EPFL (co-supervision with Prof. Robert West)
Patrick Fritsch JKU (co-supervision with Prof. Markus Schedl)
Jenny Paola Yela Bello EPFL (co-supervision with Prof. Robert West) - peer-reviewed publication
Christoph Hämmerle TU Wien (co-supervision with Prof. Allan Hanbury)
Sebastian Hofstätter TU Wien (co-supervision with Prof. Allan Hanbury) - peer-reviewed publication

Bachelor

Markus Frohmann JKU - ongoing
Nico Filzmoser JKU - ongoing
Christian Ganhör JKU peer-reviewed publication
Benjamin Minixhofer JKU peer-reviewed publication