Research Group – Data Science & Language Technologies

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Through interdisciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge research methodologies, we strive to advance the state-of-the-art in data science and language technologies, with a focus on addressing real-world problems and societal challenges.

For more information about our ongoing projects, publications, and opportunities for collaboration, please explore the respective sections of our website or reach out to our team members directly. We welcome inquiries from researchers, students, and industry partners interested in joining us on our mission to push the boundaries of knowledge and innovation in these exciting research areas. 

Group Leader

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Prof. Dr.
Lucie Flek

Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it)
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 6
53115 Bonn, Germany

Room: 2.123

Phone: +49 228 73-69200

Research Focus

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Human Representations and Alignment

We study how foundation models represent people, values, perspectives, disagreement, and social context. We develop methods and benchmarks for human modeling, value-sensitive behavior, social intelligence, pluralism, and alignment stability under personalization and post-training.

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Efficient LLM Training and Reasoning

We develop efficient, explainable methods for training, adapting, compressing, and evaluating foundation models. Our work spans LLM architectures, multilingual representations, tokenizers, model distillation and domain adaptation, reasoning approaches, and benchmarking.

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AI for Science

We build reliable domain-specialized machine learning frameworks and LLM-powered tools for scientific discovery. Our work focuses on uncertainty-aware AI for particle physics, astrophysics, and biomedicine, scientific agents, robust RDM systems, simulation reliability, and statistically valid AI-assisted workflows.

News and Talks

Current Updates

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Joining LLM superpowers along one DB speed train line! The release of Teuken7B was just a start. In Europe, we need to build not only bigger, but smarter. I am convinced that joining forces with the MCML NLP teams at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Technical University of Munich, combined with our existing collaborations with hessian.AI and many more, are the right way forward to a new generation of models for EU AI sovereignty.

Upcoming Events

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