Staff

Professors

Prof. Dr. habil. Ansgar Scherp

Head of the Working Group Data Science and Big Data Analytics

My research interests in Data Science are in natural language processing and graph data mining.

Example research topics

Analysis of scientific documents using transformer models
Extreme Multi-label Text Classification
Graph Representation Learning
Graph Summarization

Topics for theses for Bachelor and Master can be found here.

More information about my teaching concept can be found here.

stellv. Institutsdirektor

ansgar.scherp(at)uni-ulm.de

O25 342

+497315024130

Secretary

Luisa Reinbold

luisa.reinbold(at)uni-ulm.de

Luisa Reinbold

O27 523

+497315024131

Postdocs

Dr. Yousef Younes

Yousef Younes is a postdoctoral researcher at Ulm University. His research focuses on the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Human–Computer Interaction (HCI). He earned a doctorate in computer science in 2025 with a dissertation titled "Transformer-based Language Models for Analyzing Scholarly Articles"(https://oparu.uni-ulm.de/items/986eeace-2786-4ff2-a498-89d5bee75b33)

yousef.younes(at)uni-ulm.de

Research Assistants

Florian Hauss

PhD researcher in natural language processing.

florian.hauss(at)uni-ulm.de

Tom Speier

PhD researcher in natural language processing.

tom.speier(at)uni-ulm.de

External PhD Students

Abdelhalim Dahou

PhD researcher in natural language processing at social sciences institute GESIS, Cologne.

Student Research Assistants

Farnaz Banaeian Telki

Favio Acosta David

Weiju Chen

Luis Niederberger

Leon Walcher

Alumni

Dr. Till Blume

Till's research interests are in efficient graph algorithms and large-scale data management.

Till successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Semantic structural graph summaries for evolving and distributed graphs" in 2022.

Prof. Dr. Lukas Galke

Lukas Galke Poech is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark.

www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/forskningsenheder/samf/digitaldemocracycentre/people/ddc-members/lukas-galke-poech

Contact

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