Thomas has a strong passion for all things NLP: ranging from new SOTA Language Model papers until putting full-scale text-search systems into production. He has a particular interest and expertise in the area of multilingual NLP, a field that is becoming increasingly developed and important to unlock value for non-English use-cases.
As a Chapter Lead for the NLP Chapter, he and the team observe the landscape and evaluate and refine what is happening into useful best-practices, templates and tips for both internal and external knowledge advancement.
Given his background in Engineering and working experience as a Consultant, he feels a special sense of pride when being able to make advanced technical matters explainable and relatable to wide audiences.