Researcher and Software Developer
I'm an interdisciplinary researcher and software developer, holding a Master's in Computer Science (awarded in 2023) and a Doctorate in Social Anthropology (completed in 2012). My approach to coding projects begins at the core, involving comprehensive planning, design, and tackling real-world challenges through code implementation. As a published author, I've contributed to the academic sphere with two anthropological monographs, an edited volume, and over a dozen research papers spanning social anthropology and computer sciences.
- Machine Learning: 🔭 a multilingual hate speech detector for German, Italian and Spanish social media posts #big data #nlp #ai #llm #bert #mbert #xlmRoberta
- Machine Learning: :📖 a GAN for creating 16 artificially created hand-drawn books. #GANs #Machine Vision
- Machine Learning: ✏️ an introductionary book to generative AI for Social Scientists #langchain #gpt3.5 #stablediffusion
- Human Computer Interaction: 🏈 a tool for American Football coaches, designed by following established HCI principles #HCI #Javascript #HTML #CSS #NodeJS
- University Lecturing: 📜 my designed reading list for a university course on "The Anthropology of Videogames" #University
- Usable Security and Privacy: 🗺️ a collaborative student project to improve security and privacy issues surrounding Ebay Kleinanzeigen
- Webdevelopment: 🏡 my own Website #React #Javascript #CSS #HTML
• Fillies, J., Hoffmann, M.P. and Paschke, A., 2023, December. Multilingual Hate Speech Detection: Comparison of Transfer Learning Methods to Classify German, Italian, and Spanish Posts. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (pp. 5503-5511). IEEE Computer Society.
• Hoffmann, M.P. 2023. “Multilingual hate speech detection on social media: Applying transfer learning methods to classify german, italian and spanish posts”. Master’s thesis. Freie Universität Berlin. (8) 2023.
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My coding journey commenced during my undergraduate years in Computer Science from 2000 to 2003 at TU Munich in Germany. Toward the end of my Bachelor's program, I developed an additional passion: the study of social sciences. This led me then to pursue a program in social anthropology, marking the beginning of my career as a researcher in social anthropology. This path took me to the London School of Economics and Political Science, where I earned a Master's in Anthropology and Development Studies followed by a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 2012. Upon completing my doctorate, I returned to Germany and secured positions at various esteemed institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne, RE:WORK at Humboldt University, and ultimately a DFG-sponsored post-doc at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Throughout these times as a post-doc, however, my interest in coding and software development reignited, which then led me to enroll in a Master's program in Computer Science at FU Berlin, culminating in obtaining my degree in October 2023. Ever since I have a desire for knowledge in computer science-related subjects, and also began delving into interdisciplinary projects that sit at the intersection of anthropology and computer sciences. Feel free to explore the projects I'm currently involved in below!
- 💬 Ask me about ...Computer Science, Anthropology or Just Anything Else
- ⚡ Fun fact: ... Love to travel