Prof. Jochen L. Leidner, M.A. M.Phil. Ph.D. FRGS
Fields of Teaching and Research
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL)
- Search Engines, Advanced Information Systems, Information Retrieval (IR)
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Mining Spatial Meta-Data (e.g. Geocoding)
- Project Management and Methodologies
- Technology & Ethics
Projects
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VoLL-KI (educational chatbot, lecture recording analytics, topic segmentation/classification)
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MethodLab (ML project methodologies & tools)
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DE-RISK (risk reduction through computational risk analysis for insurance, finance and government)
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QLabel (nutrition labels with multi-dimensional scoring for Web content)
Functions at the university
- Founding Member, AI Center
Teaching
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Data Science with Insurance Applications (InsureTec)
- Ethics & AI
Professional Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
- Panel Chair, Microsoft-BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award (2020-2022)
- Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
- Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 03/2021: Research professorship "Explainable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Insurance", Coburg University of Applied Sciences
- Since 2017: Visiting Professor of Data Analytics, University of Sheffield
- 2008-2021: Research Scientist (later Lead ~), then Director of Research and Innovation (R&D), Thomson Reuters
- 2010-2013: Creation of an innovation team in the Zurich region, Switzerland
- 2013-2021: Creation and Management of an applied Research & Development Group in London, UK
- 2007: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Edinburgh (funded by an DAAD scholarship)
2002: Graduated M.Phil. Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technologies, University of Cambridge (funded by multiple scholarships) - 1998-2000: Software engineer, SAP
- 1998: Graduated with an M.A. in computational linguistics, English language and literature and computer science at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 1993-1998: Study at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and Lancaster University (DAAD-Stipendium scholarship)
- 1992: German A-levels equiv. ("Abitur") in biology, English, mathematics.