Curriculum Vitae

September 2021

Summary

Since Fall 2016 I am Associate Professor at Indiana University.

Dr. phil. (magna cum laude), University of Potsdam, September 1999, Advisors: Prof.Dr. Peter Staudacher and Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow

Professional experience

• since summer 2018 Fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) at Indiana University

• since summer 2017 Data Science Faculty in the School of Informatics, Computation, and Engineering (SICE), Indiana University

• since January 2018 Co-founder of Semiring Inc., an AI, NLP, ML company.

• since August 2016 Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Indiana University.

• 2014-2018 Co-Director of The LINGUIST List at Indiana University.

• 2014-2016 Associate Research Scientist, Computational Linguistics, at Indiana University.

• 2013-2014 Director of the Institute for Language Information and Technology at Eastern Michigan University.

• 2011-2014 Assistant and Associate Professor (tenured and quit 2014), Computational Linguistics, at Eastern Michigan University.

• since 2006 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University.

• 2011 Adjunct Affiliate Researcher at the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (IHJJ).

• 2010-2011 Substituting Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of Konstanz (Germany), temporary one-year professorship.

• 2009-2011 Head of the branch office of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics in Zadar (with its main institute in Zagreb)

• 2009-2010 Acting Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University in Zadar.

• 2007-2008 Acting Chair of the English Department at the University in Zadar.

• 2005-2011 Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University in Zadar, Linguistics Department (English Department till 2008).

• 2006-2009 Head of the department for theoretical and computational linguistics at the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics in Zagreb.

• 2003-2006 Director of the Computational Linguistics Program in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University.

• 2003-2006 Assistant Professor of (Computational) Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University.

• 2002-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University.

• 2001-2002 IT Architect, Project Manager and Researcher in the Research & Innovations group of the IS-STA (Dresdner Bank AG and Allianz AG) in Frankfurt a.M. (Germany).

• 2000-2001 Researcher (PostDoc) at the Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Science, Project DWDS, PI: Prof.Dr. Manfred Bierwisch and Prof.Dr. Wolfgang Klein.

• 2000 Researcher (PostDoc), Department of Computer Science at the Technical University in Berlin, KIT Group, Project Verbmobil.

• 1999 Researcher at the University of Potsdam, Linguistics Department, in the interdisciplinary project “Formale Modelle Kognitiver Komplexität” (Formal Models of Cognitive Complexity), WP PI: Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow.

• 1998-1999 Researcher, Computer Science at the University in Hamburg, Natural Language Systems Group (NATS), PI: Prof.Dr. Walther von Hahn and Prof.Dr. Wolfgang Menzel, Project Verbmobil.

• 1994-1998 Researcher, Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Science, Project RULE (Rule Learning and Rule Knowledge), PI: Prof.Dr. Jürgen Weissenborn and Prof.Dr. Angela Friederici.

• 1994-1995 Researcher at the Innovationskolleg and Research Project “Formale Modelle Kognitiver Komplexität” (Formal Models of Cognitive Complexity), Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam, WP PI: Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow.

Board Member

• Founding member of Semiring Inc., an AI, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning company, specializing in Knowledge Graphs and reasoning.

• Member of the External Advisory Board of the Linguistic Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. See note.

Affiliations

• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

• Member of the Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing (SIGSLAV)

• Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Member of the ACM Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI)
• Member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
• The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI)
• Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Lifetime Member.
• Slavic Linguistic Society (SLS), Lifetime Member.
• Media Ecology Association (MEA) for 2019-2020.
• Network Science Society (NetSci) - 2017.

• Heterodox Academy

• Former member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Section Z, Linguistics and Language Science.
• Former member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), DGfS Sektion Computerlinguistik.

Education

degrees:

• Dr. phil. in Linguistics (magna cum laude), University of Potsdam, September 1999, Advisors: Prof.Dr. Peter Staudacher and Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow
• Diploma in Linguistics (with distinction), University of Potsdam, November 1994, Advisor: Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow

Studies

• Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main: Geophysics, Math and Physics (Undergraduate studies)
• Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main: German (General Linguistics with Prof. Dr. Helen Leuninger and Prof. Dr. Günther Grewendorf), Slavic languages and Japanese (Undergraduate and MA studies)
• University of Potsdam: General Linguistics (with Prof. Dr. Gisbert Fanselow, Prof. Dr. Peter Staudacher and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Weissenborn) and Slavic linguistics (Diploma and PhD studies)

Primary and Secondary School

• Goethe Gymnasium in Dortmund (Germany)
• Stifts-Grundschule in Dortmund (Germany)