David R. Email & Phone Number

Conduct cutting-edge machine learning research, building and training large language models in the Embeddings Team.

Benchmarking LLMs for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) under the supervision of Stéphane Clinchant. EMNLP Findings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01102

Amsterdam Und Umgebung, Niederlande

Conducting research on sparse latent representations in Information Retrieval / NLP. I worked towards replacing the first non-neural ranker to make the multi-stage ranking pipeline for semantic search fully neural. This project is funded through the computationally efficient NLP research grant by Facebook.

Tübingen Und Umgebung, Deutschland

Core-contributor on all layers of the Scala-based grid-computingMPI Bioinformatics Toolkit. The Platform is used by leading researchers. I contributed 35.000+ lines in Scala, Python, Bash, and JavaScript. The project is open-source.

Tübingen Und Umgebung, Deutschland

Developing a new implementation of the MPI-Bioinformatics Toolkit.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Information Retrieval / Nlp

PhD Candidate @ University of Amsterdam, on the topic of Neural Information Retrieval / Natural Language Processing using LLMs. Advised by.

Master Of Science - Ms, Artificial Intelligence, Cum Laude

Thesis: From Many Models to One: Learning without Centralized Training Data, Supervisor: Jaap Kamps (UvA/ ILLC), Assessor: Mostafa.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Bioinformatics, Thesis Grade: 10/10

Relevant Course work: - Advanced Immunology - Molecular Biology - Computational Immunology - Machine Learning - Neural Networks - Organic.