Lukas Gienapp
AI Engineer at Seltz
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Gienapp is an ML/IR researcher with eight years of experience specializing in applying and adapting large language models to search problems and making search systems useful for LLMs. Based in Leipzig, he combines academic rigor from his MSc studies at Universität Leipzig with hands-on research roles at ScaDS.AI, Leipzig University and Universität Kassel, where he currently works. His work blends information retrieval, machine learning and knowledge extraction—teaching models not just to retrieve documents but to distill actionable knowledge from them. Active in regional research networks like webis and hessian.AI, he frequently bridges collaborative projects across institutions as a guest researcher. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between building experimental systems and producing reproducible research, making him effective at translating novel IR ideas into practical evaluation setups.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Leipzig University
Github Skills (42)
visualization10
theming10
data-science10
matplotlib10
theme-development10
data-visualization10
python9
weakly-supervised-learning9
deep-learning8
bert8
gpu8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
natural-language-processing7
nlp7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lgienapp/aquarel
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Styling matplotlib made easy
Contributions:6 releases, 14 reviews, 65 commits in 3 months
matplotlibplottingvisualizationdata-sciencedata-visualization
lgienapp/dotfiles
Mar 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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