Supervision

Ph.D. co-supervisor, University of Groningen

Sina Rashidi, Speech technologies for Low Saxon, 2026– (with Martijn Wieling & Malvina Nissim)
Tido Specht, Text technologies for Low Saxon, 2026– (with Martijn Wieling & Malvina Nissim)

Thesis advisor
I've been supervising B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses on topics related to my own research (examiner at LMU: Barbara Plank):

Effects of dialectal ASR errors on NLU tasks – Antonia Freund, M.Sc. thesis, 2026
Indirect question answering for Bavarian – Miriam Winkler, M.Sc. thesis, 2025; published at LREC 2026
Slot and intent detection for Upper German dialects with auxiliary task learning – Xaver Maria Krückl, M.Sc. thesis, 2024; published at VarDial 2025
Interpretable machine learning for dialect classification – Zihang Sun, M.Sc. thesis, 2024
Automatically identifying regional languages of Italy – Silvia Cardani, M.Sc. thesis, 2023
Automatic dialect identification in Vietnamese text – Vu Hoang Anh Dang, B.Sc. thesis, 2023
Lexicon-based data synthesis for Swiss German POS tagging – Barbara Kovačić, B.Sc. thesis, 2023; presented at TaCoS 2023

Research internship mentor, LMU Munich

Evaluating speech synthesis systems for (dialectal) German – Simone Ciciliano, M.A. research internship (Free University of Bozen–Bolzano), 2024