Dr. Michael A. Hedderich
I’m a Junior Research Group Leader (a German equivalent to assistant professor) at Munich University (LMU), affiliated with the MaiNLP group lead by Barbara Plank and the Munich Center for Machine Learning.
My research covers the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing and human-computer interaction. In the development of AI systems, human factors play a crucial role, like in
- human supervision (or the lack thereof in low-resource settings,
- the need to explain, understand and control global model behavior,
- the involvement of domain experts and stakeholders.
I’m both interested in developing new technology as well as building bridges from AI to other interested fields. To this end, my work includes technical and foundational methods, human-centered approaches, and applications in fields ranging from archeology to medical research.
Here are possibilities to join my group. Currently, there is an open call for fully-funded MCML PhD positions.
News
| Nov 2024 | I’ll give an Invited Talk at the ILCC at Edinburgh University. If you are in Edinburgh and want to meet, just reach out 🏴 |
| Oct 2024 | I’ll be in the Bay Area in the first week of October for a talk at Berkeley and some research visits. If you’d like to meet, just let me know 🏖️ |
| Sep 2024 | Welcome to Florian Eichin who is starting his PhD with us 👨🎓 |
| May 2024 | Our paper on enabling non-AI-expert teachers to build LLM-based chatbots and studying how they want to use them got accepted at CHI and our paper on modeling crowdworker behavior through computational rationality got accepted at Behaviour & Information Technology 🤖 |
| Mar 2024 | I’ll give a lecture on the technical foundations of LLMs for HCI students at Aalto University 📖 |
Affiliations
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Munich University (LMU), Germany, affiliated with the MainNLP group lead by Barbara Plank and the Munich Center for Machine Learning. |
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Cornell University, USA, with the group of Qian Yang. |
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Computational Behavior Lab group of Antti Oulasvirta at Aalto University, Finland. |
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Disney Research Studios in Zürich, Switzerland. |
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Spoken Language Systems (LSV) group of Dietrich Klakow at Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany, where I did my PhD. |
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Exploratory Data Analysis group of Jilles Vreeken at the Cluster of Excellence (now CISPA Helmholtz Center), Germany. |
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Deep Data lab of Gerard de Melo at Rutgers University, USA. |
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Gerhard Weikum and Andrew Yates at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany. |
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the machine translation research and development teams at Amazon in Berlin. |
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the Information Systems group at Mainz University. |
Contact
mail@michael-hedderich.de