Leon Weber-Genzel

Machine Learning Research Engineer with expertise in biosignals and natural language processing

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

About

I‘m an ML & NLP research engineer with 6+ years of experience in building machine learning models, evaluation pipelines and application software for various types of signals and application domains. I‘m motivated by creating software that can directly improve people‘s lives.

Experience

  • Machine Learning Research Engineer at smedo GmbH
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Nov 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
    • Research Assistant
      Nov 2018 - Oct 2022 · 4 yrs

      Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics Lab Research in information extraction and text mining in the biomedical domain - I published and presented research at major conferences (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ISMB) and in bioinformatics journals - I developed state-of-the-art tools for biomedical information extraction that are used in research workflows

    • Research Assistant
      Apr 2016 - Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Machine learning for Natural Language Processing and Genetics

  • Researcher at HUMBOLDT-INNOVATION
    Jul 2018 - Oct 2018 · 4 mos

    Joint project with Bayer R&D Information. Representation learning and novelty detection for a large-scale patent corpus

  • Student Research Assistant at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Nov 2017 - Feb 2018 · 4 mos

    Deep Learning for biomedical time-series segmentation