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Name Jan-Christoph Klie
Label Applied Scientist
Email hi@mrklie.com
Url https://mrklie.com
Summary Experienced Machine Learning and Software Engineer with a Ph.D. in Natural Lanugage Processing from the UKP Lab, Darmstadt, Germany.

Work

  • 2025.01 - now

    Berlin, Germany

    Applied Scientist
    Amazon
    As part of the Amazon Nova team, I train state-of-the-art foundation models to deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance. This involves reseearch in data aquisition model architectures, training regimes and more.
  • 2024.08 - 2024.12

    Frankfurt, Germany

    GenAI Consultant (Freelance)
    Union Investment
    Coached a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers on recent trends and best practices in deep learning, natural language processing and data science. Prepared demos, presentations and executive summaries.
  • 2023.02 - 2024.07

    Heidelberg, Germany

    Machine Learning and Software Engineer (Freelance)
    Apple
    Provided data science, fullstack software and ML engineering services to improve data annotation efficiency and quality, especially annotation quality evaluation.
  • 2018.01 - 2023.04

    Darmstadt, Germany

    Research Programmer & SysAdmin Lead
    UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
    This was the position funding my Ph.D studies in natural language processing. Besides doing research, I also lead the System Administration team for our group and was part of the INCEpTION project, which developed a machine learning augmented text annotation platform.

Education

  • 2018.01 - 2024.04

    Darmstadt, Germany

    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    TU Darmstadt
    Thesis Topic: Improving NLP Annotation Quality and Efficiency, supervised by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
  • 2014.10 - 2017.10

    Darmstadt, Germany

    M.Sc. in Computer Science
    TU Darmstadt
    Robotics, reinforcement learning, computer vision, natural language processing and software engineering. Minor in control theory.
  • 2011.10 - 2014.09

    Mannheim, Germany

    B.Sc. in Computer Science
    DHBW Mannheim
    Integrated degree program together with IBM.

Languages

German
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Chinese
Intermediate
Vietnamese
Beginner