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| Name | Jan-Christoph Klie | 
| Label | Applied Scientist | 
| 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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2011.10 - 2014.09 Mannheim, Germany
 
Languages
| German | |
| Native speaker | 
| English | |
| Fluent | 
| Chinese | |
| Intermediate | 
| Vietnamese | |
| Beginner |