Curriculum Vitae

January 2026

Summary

Since Fall 2016, I have been an Associate Professor at Indiana University.

Dr.phil. (magna cum laude), University of Potsdam, 2000, Advisors: Prof.Dr. Peter Staudacher and Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow

Professional Experience

• Since 2026 Adjunct Professor in the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington

• Since 2024 Fellow of the Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) including Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame.

• Since 2024 Member of the Quantum Science and Engineering Center (QSEc) at Indiana University.

• Since 2023 Core AI Faculty at the Luddy Artificial Intelligence Center at Indiana University Bloomington.

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

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

• Since January 2018 Co-founder of Semiring Inc., an AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Knowledge Graph company.

• Since August 2016 Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics, 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 left in 2014 for Indiana University), Computational Linguistics, at Eastern Michigan University.

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

• 2005-2011 Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University in Zadar.

• 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 at Indiana University.

• 2003-2006 Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at Indiana University.

• 2002-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor 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, 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), University of Potsdam, WP PI: Prof.Dr. Gisbert Fanselow.

Certificates

• Biomedical Researcher Certificate (07-Jul-2022-06-Jul-2027), certificate record ID: 49987962, CITI Program, Requirements set by Indiana University/IU Health
• 2022-2025 HIPAA Privacy & Security Training, Indiana University
• 2025-2026 Research Security Certificate, Indiana University
• 2021 (Class of) National Security Innovations Network (NSIN) Defense Innovation Accelerator (DIA) program certificate
• Google Project Management Certificate (TBA)
• PMP Certification from PMI (TBA)

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

• Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (Lifetime Member)
  • Member of the ACM Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI)
  • Member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
• Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  • IEEE Computer Society member
  • IEEE Systems Council member
  • IEEE Quantum Technical Community (QTC) member
• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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

• The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI)