CV

Education

• PhD. in Computation, Cognition and Language, University of Cambridge, 2027 (expected)
• M.S. in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, 2023
• B.S. in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, 2021

Work experience

• 07/2020 - 10/2022: Intern of Technical Staff, Cohere

• 10/2022 - 03/2023 : Student Research Assistant, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
  • Research and engineering for the AdapterHub project. Extend and maintain the open source code base.

• 11/2020 - 05/2022: Data Engineering Intern, Meta

• 11/2020 - 05/2022: Student Research Assistant, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
  • since 11/2020: Research and engineering for the AdapterHub project. Extend and maintain the open source code base.
  • since 04/2021: Contributing to engineering a question answering platform.

Publications

UKP-SQUARE: An Online Platform for Question Answering Research.

Tim Baumgärtner, Kexin Wang, Rachneet Sachdeva, Gregor Geigle, Max Eichler, Clifton Poth, Hannah Sterz, Haritz Puerto, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Jonas Pfeiffer, Nils Reimers, Gözde Şahin, and Iryna Gurevych

Adapters: A Unified Library for Parameter-Efficient and Modular Transfer Learning

Clifton Poth, Hannah Sterz, Indraneil Paul, Sukannya Purkayastha, Leon Engländer, Timo Imhof, Ivan Vulić, Sebastian Ruder, Iryna Gurevych, Jonas Pfeiffer

Scaling Sparse Fine-Tuning to Large Language Models

Alan Ansell, Ivan Vulić, Hannah Sterz, Anna Korhonen, Edoardo M. Ponti

M2QA: Multi-domain Multilingual Question Answering

Leon Engländer, Hannah Sterz, Clifton A Poth, Jonas Pfeiffer, Ilia Kuznetsov, Iryna Gurevych

DARE: Diverse Visual Question Answering with Robustness Evaluation

Hannah Sterz, Jonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vulić

ReCoVeR the Target Language: Language Steering without Sacrificing Task Performance

Hannah Sterz, Fabian David Schmidt, Goran Glavaš, and Ivan Vulić

Teaching

• 04/2019 - 07/2020: Supervisor, University of Cambridge
  • Supporting students by going over important concepts in supervisions and with feedback on submitted work
• 2022/01: Teaching Assistant, ALPS Winter School
  • Assisting in the QA-session and the lab on adapter-transformers.
• 04/2019 - 07/2020: Student Assistant in Teaching, TU Darmstadt
  • Teaching concepts taught in the lecture during exercise sessions and providing individual support during office hours.