Hi, I'm Hanna

I'm a 3rd year PhD student in Machine Learning at the University of Hamburg, advised by Prof. Dr. Sören Laue and focusing on Efficient and Explainable LLMs.

I'm open to internships and research collaborations, and I'm happy to supervise new students.

News

• Oct 2026 Gave an online talk on A Structural Theory of Position Bias in Transformers to around 30 people at Artificialy SA!
• Aug 2026 Got the Best Poster Award out of 48 posters at the ProbAI 2026 summer school in Vilnius, Lithuania!
• May 2026 Selected for the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS 2026) at Columbia University in New York, USA (200 of 1,200 applicants)!
• Feb 2026 New preprint on arXiv: A Structural Theory of Position Bias in Transformers!
• Sep 2025 Attended the Mathematics of Machine Learning 2025 conference at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)!
• Aug 2025 Visited the OxML 2025 summer school in Oxford, UK in the MLx Representation Learning & Generative AI track!
• Jul 2025 Our paper Prediction is not Explanation: Revisiting the Explanatory Capacity of Mapping Embeddings got accepted to ECAI 2025!
• May 2025 3rd place in the PlantCLEF 2025 Kaggle competition!
• Oct 2024 Bronze medal in the Problematic Internet Use Kaggle competition!

Publications