Tobias Holtdirk

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Synthetic Data for the Social Sciences
• Intersection of NLP and Public Opinion Research

Short Description

Tobias has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Computational Social Systems from RWTH Aachen. In his thesis, he worked on supervised fine-tuning of large language models for survey imputation. After completing his studies, he worked for a year as a research assistant in the Computational Social Science Department of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne.

He is a junior member of the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) and will be working on the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Public Opinion Research.