Data Scientist (2024 - Present)

🏢 Trivago N.V.
Düsseldorf, Germany

💼 Core Responsibilities:

• Build rule-based, ML, and LLM models for different tasks such as matching, deduplication, and data enrichment
• Develop and optimise BigQuery SQL and Python pipelines at scale
• Perform EDA, anomaly detection, data transformation, and visualisation
• Collaborate with backend engineers to productionize scalable models
• Work closely with stakeholders to deliver data-driven solutions

Research Associate (2017 - 2024)

🏛️ University of Cologne
Germany

🔬 Collaborative Research Center "Prominence in Language" (SFB1252)
📋 Project: "INF – Infrastructure: Data, Design and Sustainability"
👥 PIs: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter

💼 Core Responsibilities:

• Ensuring sustainable data management of ~20 research projects in compliance with the German Research Foundation (DFG) regulations, including tasks such as long-term data archiving, handling metadata, and fostering open science practices
• Assisting projects with different data workflow tasks including data preprocessing, automatic annotation, data wrangling, query matching, string manipulation, and data visualisation
• Consulting individual projects on experimental design, corpus design, survey design, and data annotation practices

Research Associate (2015 - 2017)

🏛️ University of Cologne
Germany

🔬 DFG Project: The relation between grammar and usage: null subjects and subject position in Spanish and Persian
👥 PI: Prof. Dr. Aria Adli

💼 Core Responsibilities:

• Multi-layer annotation of Persian spontaneous speech
• Data preparation and transformation
• Developing hierarchical data representation strategies in alignment with ISO frameworks, MAF and SynAF, and TEI guidelines