08/2007 - 12/2011:
Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ph.D. in Language and Information Technologies

08/2004 - 05/2005:
Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, Singapore
Exchange program

10/2002 - 08/2007:
Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Diploma in Computer Science

06/2007 - 08/2007:
Research assistantship
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Semantic extensions of the Ephyra QA system and participation in TREC 2007
Advisor: Prof. Eric Nyberg

01/2007 - 06/2007:
Diploma thesis
Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
"Deploying Semantic Resources for Open Domain Question Answering "
Advisors: Prof. Eric Nyberg, Prof. Alex Waibel

01/2006 - 12/2006:
Research assistantship
interACT, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Development of the Ephyra QA system and participation in TREC 2006
Advisor: Prof. Alex Waibel

09/2005 - 11/2005:
Student research project
interACT, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
"Pattern Learning and Knowledge Annotation for Question Answering"
Advisor: Prof. Alex Waibel

05/2010 - 08/2010:
Internship at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
Statistical source expansion and domain adaptation for question answering

05/2009 - 08/2009:
Internship at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
Statistical expansion of text corpora with related information from large, unstructured sources

05/2008 - 08/2008:
Internship at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
Domain adaptation and system integration in question answering

04/2003 - 07/2004:
Part-time work at Porsche AG, Stuttgart, Germany
Demand planning for vehicle volumes and features

04/2002 - 09/2002:
Internship at Porsche AG, Stuttgart, Germany
Business process organization