Congratulations (and farewell), Fabian!
19.08.2025On July 8th, Fabian David Schmidt successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled "Robust and Scalable Cross-Lingual Transfer". The thesis evaluation committee, as well as the defense committee, found Fabian's work to be of exceptional scientific value, awarding it the "summa cum laude" (mit Auszeichnung) grade.
On July 8th, Fabian David Schmidt successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled "Robust and Scalable Cross-Lingual Transfer". The thesis evaluation committee, as well as the defense committee (Prof. Andreas Hotho, Prof. Goran Glavaš, both Uni Würzburg/CAIDAS; Prof. Barbara Plank, LMU Munich; and Dr. Ivan Vulić, Uni Cambridge and Google DeepMind), found Fabian's work to be of exceptional scientific value, awarding it the "summa cum laude" (mit Auszeichnung) grade. The thesis is a culmination of Fabian's four years of excellent research in the area of multilingual natural language processing and cross-lingual transfer, resulting in numerous publications at top-tier venues in NLP (ACL, EMNLP).
Following his graduation, in August, Fabian left WüNLP and joined Cohere for AI as a research engineer.
