Hello! I'm Maria, a passionate machine learning enthusiast with experience in developing models and managing research projects. I enjoy collaborating with teams and leading innovative initiatives in language technology and deep learning.

Maria Francis

Hello! I'm Maria, a passionate machine learning enthusiast with experience in developing models and managing research projects. I enjoy collaborating with teams and leading innovative initiatives in language technology and deep learning.

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Hello! I’m Maria, a passionate machine learning enthusiast with experience in developing models and managing research projects. I enjoy collaborating with teams and leading innovative initiatives in language technology and deep learning.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent
German
Advanced
Japanese
Intermediate
French
Beginner
Dutch
Beginner

Work Experience

Machine Learning Intern at German Research Center for AI (DFKI)
May 1, 2025 - October 25, 2025
Engineered ML and deep learning models to build a dataset and baseline for a shared task on Field-of-Research Classification, enabling a 23% increase in macro-F1 over the previous SoTA. Served as primary developer, primary author of ESWC25 paper, and project organizer and coordinator.
Project Manager and Tech Lead - LLM Benchmarking Research Initiative at University of Groningen
December 1, 2024 - October 25, 2025
Project management and tech lead for a research initiative, leading to the development of 22 evaluation benchmarks for LLMs in the Italian language. Coordinated task design, evaluation protocol setup, and inter-institutional communication.
Language Technology Engineer at Congree Language Technologies GmbH.
August 1, 2023 - October 25, 2025
Built and deployed backend components for a multilingual language correction system tailored for enterprise clients.
Teaching Assistant - Grammar Formalisms and Statistics at Saarland University
August 1, 2023 - October 25, 2025
Wrote and presented tutorials and lectures, and graded coursework for Statistics with R and Grammar Formalisms.
Customer Service (Hospitality) at ZING, AYAME, & Sam Kullmans Diner
January 1, 2023 - October 25, 2025
Gained customer service experience in hospitality roles, including head waitress, solo bartender/server, and multi-role team member.

Education

M.Sc. in Language and Communications Technologies at University of Trento & University of Groningen
September 1, 2023 - September 1, 2025
B.A. in Computational Linguistics at Saarland University
October 1, 2018 - August 1, 2023

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Experience Level

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Expert

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