Open Topics

Ongoing PhD co-supervisions

Arthur Hilbert (with Vera Schmitt and Sebastian Möller) – PhD @ TU Berlin

Qianli Wang (with Vera Schmitt and Sebastian Möller) – PhD @ TU Berlin

Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas (with Jing Yang, Vera Schmitt and Sebastian Möller) – PhD @ TU Berlin / Deutsche Telekom

Steffen Castle (with Sebastian Möller) – PhD @ TU Berlin / DFKI

Ongoing Master’s thesis supervisions

Valentin Garbe – MSc thesis @ TU Berlin: Interpreting LLMs’ Decision-Making in API Calling and Tool Use

Jiaao Li (with Qianli Wang) – MSc thesis @ TU Berlin: An Adaptive and Efficient Chain-of-Thought with Code-formatted Reasoning Framework for CodeLLMs

Jonas Peschel (with Charlott Jakob) – MSc thesis @ TU Berlin: Explaining Retrieval Augmented Generation: Automated Fact-Checking with Faithful Answer Attribution

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Ongoing Bachelor’s thesis supervisions

Moritz Starcke – BSc thesis @ TU Berlin: Ein systematischer Überblick über LLMs in der medizinischen Diagnostik

Completed Master’s thesis supervisions

Radhika Yadav (with Sherzod Hakimov) – MSc thesis @ Uni Potsdam: Exploring and Addressing Overreliance on LLM-Generated Explanations in the Fact-Checking Domain

Yi-Sheng Hsu (with Manfred Stede) – MSc thesis @ Uni Potsdam: Evaluating LLM-generated Explanatory Utterances through Dialogue Completion

Qianli Wang (with Leonhard Hennig) – MSC thesis @ TU Berlin: A Singular LLM Is All You Need for Dialogue-based Explanation Regarding NLP Tasks

Konstantin Biskupski (with Eleftherios Avramidis) – MSc thesis @ TU Berlin: Quality estimation of machine-translated texts with fine-grained classification of errors

Kiran Rohra (with Philippe Thomas) – MSc thesis @ TU Berlin: Comparative error analysis of biomedical image labelling and captioning models

Ajay Madhavan Ravichandran (with Philippe Thomas) – MSc thesis @ TU Berlin: Evaluating text quality of generated radiology reports

Daniel Fernau (with Tim Polzehl & Stefan Hillmann) – MSc thesis @ TU Berlin: Towards Adaptive Conversational Agents: Fine-tuning Language-Models for User Classification to enhance Usability

Completed Bachelor’s thesis supervisions

Minh Anh Nguyen – BSc thesis @ TU Berlin: Explaining Blind Spots of Model-based Evaluation Metrics for Text Generation

Yilong Wang (with Qianli Wang) – BSc thesis @ TU Berlin: AIGC: Automatic Iterative Generation for Counterfactuals

Aaron Louis Eidt – BSc thesis @ TU Berlin: Simplifying Outcomes of Language Model Component Analyses

Maximilian Bleick (with Aljoscha Burchardt) – BSc thesis @ TU Berlin: An Investigation of LLM Chatbots Concerning the Echo Chamber Effect

Mika Rebensburg (with Tim Polzehl & Stefan Hillmann) - BSc thesis @ TU Berlin : Automatic Evaluation of Chatbot Dialogs Using Pre-Trained Language Models in the Customer Support Domain

Completed project supervisions

Yi-Sheng Hsu (with Sherzod Hakimov) – MSc project @ Uni Potsdam: Engineering LLM-generated Explanations with Metric-based Readability Control

Research assistant supervisions

Completed

Yi-Sheng Hsu – Explanation Dialogues; Rationalization with Metric-based Readability Control

Maximilian Dustin Nasert – Data-based Interpretability

Christopher Ebert – Saliency map verbalization and data-based interpretability

Qianli Wang – Interactive NLP model exploration through dialogue systems

João Lucas Mendes de Lemos Lins – Instructional explanations

Sahil Chopra – Rationale generation for dialogue-based explanations

Ajay Madhavan Ravichandran – Conceptualizing dialogue-based explanations