Martin Gerlach
Senior Research Scientist at Wikimedia Foundation
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMartin Gerlach is a Senior Research Scientist based in Berlin with nine years of experience applying data science, machine learning, NLP, information theory and network science to understand the dynamics of complex social systems. He specializes in large-scale textual analyses—ranging from millions of books to publication corpora—to study diffusion of innovations and the organization of knowledge, and has extended these methods to transcriptomics and large-scale personality data. His interdisciplinary work, born from a physics PhD and postdoctoral research, bridges Computer Science, Linguistics, Sociology, Psychology and Biology and has appeared in top multidisciplinary journals and widespread international media. At the Wikimedia Foundation he leads research that turns massive behavioral datasets into actionable insights for open knowledge, combining rigorous theory with practical, reproducible analyses. A not-obvious strength is his ability to translate physics-style modeling into tools that reveal social and biological signal at population scales.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Doctor rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Physics, Summa Cum Laude at Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex SystemsDiploma (M.Sc.), Physics, With distinction, Diploma (M.Sc.), Physics, With distinction at Technische Universität DresdenNorthwestern University
German, English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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72kreached
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Github Skills (25)
corpus10
standardized10
project-gutenberg10
wordpress9
topic-modeling9
pipeline8
gutenberg8
aws-glue6
reactive-programming6
amazon-web-services6
spring6
terraform6
java6
json6
spring-webflux6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
martingerlach/hSBM_Topicmodel
Jul 2017 - Mar 2022
Using stochastic block models for topic modeling
Contributions:6 reviews, 59 commits, 21 PRs in 4 years 9 months
topic-modeling
martingerlach/reader-embedding-api
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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