About me
I’m a professor for Natural Language Processing at IT:U - Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria. I’m also a research scientist at IBM Research Europe - Ireland. Previously, I was an adjunct senior lecturer, visiting professor and co-supervisor at UKP Lab-TU Darmstadt.
At IT:U, I lead the NLP group with a strong focus on large language model (LLM) governance, cross-document NLP, argument mining and fact-checking, knowledge representation and reasoning, and human-centred NLP applications for scientific discovery, health, and education. The broad research goal of the IT:U NLP Lab is to develop robust and trustworthy NLP technologies to improve human-AI and human-human interactions, and to solve real-world problems.
News
12/2025 Our tutorial “AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation” has been accepted at EACL 2026!
12/2025 I will serve as a senior area chair at ACL 2026.
11/2025 Our paper “Transforming Scholarly Landscapes: Influence of Large Language Models on Academic Fields beyond Computer Science” has been accepted for publication in the PLOS ONE journal.
11/2025 I gave an invited talk at the ATLAS seminar, the University of Manchester.
11/2025 I visited King’s College London and gave an talk on “Automated Reasoning to Navigate Conflicting Scientific Evidence and Misleading Claims”.
11/2025 I participated in the workshop “The past, present, and future of the UKP Lab” in Cambridge and gave a talk on automated reasoning for scientific knowledge synthesis.
10/2025 I visited the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and Northeastern Natural Language Processing Research Group.
09/2025 Our paper “MathBuddy” has been accepted at the EMNLP 2025 demo track!
09/2025 I participated in the panel discussion on “Algorithms of inequality? Gender, discrimination and power in AI” at TEC25 organised by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and the BMWFW.
08/2025 Four long papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2025 (3 Main Conference and 1 Findings).
07/2025 I gave an invited talk “Clarity from Complexity: Automated Reasoning to Navigate Conflicting Scientific Evidence and Misleading Claims” at the Eighth FEVER Workshop.
07/2025 I moderated the panel discussion “Careers in NLP” at the ACL 2025 industry track.
07/2025 I gave a tutorial together with my collaborators on “AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation” at the IT:U Summer school 2025 on NLP.
07/2025 I gave an invited lecture at the Beijing University Summer School on AI & Medcine Research.
07/2025 I gave a keynote at AIRoV 2025 AI & Vision.
06/2025 IT:U Summer School 2025 on Natural Language Processing will take place on July 25–26 in Linz, Austria, just ahead of ACL 2025. This two-day event will feature a rich program of invited talks, panel discussions, and hands-on tutorials. We warmly welcome you to register and be part of the experience!
05/2025 Three long papers have been accepted at ACL 2025 Main Conference.
05/2025 I participated in the WHO online roundtable on the Future of AI in Detecting and Labeling Health Misinformation and Disinformation.
05/2025 I’m excited to co-organize the INTERPLAY25 workshop (First Workshop on the Interplay of Model Behavior and Model Internals) as part of COLM 2025! We invite researchers to shed new light on the interplay between models’ inner workings and their emergent behavior by contributing to INTERPLAY25 with submissions that delve into how insights from model internals can illuminate complex behaviors, and conversely, how understanding these behaviors can inform our comprehension of internal mechanisms.
02/2025 I gave an invited talk “Empowering Science with AI: Building NLP Models for Scientific Knowledge Synthesis and Fact-checking” at the Salzburg HCI Doctoral Consortium Week Winter 2024/2025 on Feb 25th.
02/2025 I’m currently looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher to join the IT:U NLP lab! Please fill out this form (feel free to skip some questions) or send me your CV if you are interested in the position.
02/2025 I will serve as an area chair at ACL 2025.
02/2025 I will serve as a best paper award co-chair at IJCNLP-AACL 2025.
01/2025 Our paper “Grounding Fallacies Misrepresenting Scientific Publications in Evidence” has been accepted at NAACL 2025 Main Conference.