Research group leader at LMU Munich and MCML on ML, NLP & HCI. Also experimenting with lemonade that glows in the dark 🥤 (he/him)https://bsky.app/profile/mhedderich.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mhedderich.bsky.social/post/3m2tk46bbdk2qMCML just started again a call for their very competitive but also really nice, fully funded PhD positions. These positions are matched to research groups at both TUM and LMU, including my group and the other great ML and NLP groups here in Munich 😄 [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Oct 2025 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:lo5dcvffbk7sh5bjg7rfsaug/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2tk46bbdk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mhedderich.bsky.social/post/3m2ag7gbngk2dExcited to share that our survey paper "Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead" lead by Jesujoba Alabi has been accepted at #EMNLP2025! Here’s a short 🧵 about the paper.02 Oct 2025 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:lo5dcvffbk7sh5bjg7rfsaug/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ag7gbngk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mhedderich.bsky.social/post/3ltop7vyrv22mLooking forward to my visit to Hamburg University and their Data Science group! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jul 2025 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:lo5dcvffbk7sh5bjg7rfsaug/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltop7vyrv22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mhedderich.bsky.social/post/3ltonx2sli32gWhat changes if you take the LLM prompt “Tell me a short story about Dr. Li” and replace “Dr. Li” with “Dr. Smith”? Would you have guessed that this introduces a massive gender bias, from ca. half/half to 99% male doctors? 

In our #ACL2025 paper we present the Spotlight framework which...11 Jul 2025 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:lo5dcvffbk7sh5bjg7rfsaug/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltonx2sli32ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mhedderich.bsky.social/post/3ltmg7l37j22lInterpretability meets Discourse. Congratulations to @florian-eichin.com to his first ACL paper 🎉 [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jul 2025 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:lo5dcvffbk7sh5bjg7rfsaug/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltmg7l37j22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mhedderich.bsky.social/post/3llqwnld4wk27Happy to be part of that team for almost 1/3 of that time 😀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2025 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:lo5dcvffbk7sh5bjg7rfsaug/app.bsky.feed.post/3llqwnld4wk27