Malte Ostendorff

Malte is a research engineer based in Berlin, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Göttingen. Malte’s research has mainly focused on information retrieval, recommender systems, and language modeling. Most recently, he worked on the collection and curation of pretraining datasets for large language models, contributing to several European language modeling projects.

Malte is a strong advocate for open data and open science, co-founding initiatives such as Occiglot and Open Legal Data. Prior to his research career, Malte also worked in the online advertising and search engine optimization industry.

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