Here is Dr. Letiția Pârcălăbescu.
Conceived as a physicist, mutated to a computer scientist. Conducting research on Deep Learning models and explaining AI on YouTube.
Speaking Romanian, German, English (C1) and French (B2).
Writing skills in Python, JavaScript, MATLAB, R, C++, SQL, etc.
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October 2024 – today
Aleph Alpha Research
Aug 2021 - today
Science Communication Parcalabescu u. Trost GbR
January 2019 – September 2024
University of Heidelberg, Institute for Computational Linguistics
Nov 2017 – March 2018, Aug 2018 – Nov 2018
Web Programming at the Centrum for Organismal Studies (COS). Check out the result here.
April 2017 – September 2017
University of Heidelberg, Algorithms and Data Structures Course
October 2016 – January 2017
Research and software programming for ilastik at the Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI)
April 2016 - May 2016
University of Heidelberg
Nominated by Heidelberg University for the GI Dissertationspreis 2024, Dagstuhl
Keynote at the Heidelberg Postdoc Symposium hosted by the dkfz (2025)
Participated as a science communicator in the first Romanian-language Native Scientists Workshop Heidelberg (2025)
Keynote at the National Conference on AI Transformations: Language, Technology, and Society, Utrecht (2025)
Panelist at the VOICES festival in Zagreb, Croatia (2025)
Talk and discussion "Artificial Intelligence: Which skills do I need?" at E-engAGEd organized by EAVI (2025)
Invited talk at the University of Sheffield NLP Group (2024)
Invited talk at Datafest Yerevan Conference (2024)
Podcast Interview Deep Learning with Letitia Parcalabescu - Weaviate Podcast #96! (2024)
Panelist at the VOICES festival in Florence, Italy. (2024)
Invited talk at cogsys-group, CLASP, Gothenburg, Sweden. (2024)
Invited to talk about on work at heidelberg.ai at the DKFZ. (2024)
Invited to talk in a panel about Digital Tools & AI in Research at To be honest Conference organized by the German Scholars Organization (2023)
Invited to talk (in German) about AI for a general audience at ARD MixTalk (2023)
Podcast (in German) about AI for the Handelsblatt (2023)
Keynote at the LIMO 2023 Workshop About Vision and Language (VL) models (2023)
Guest on the Transformative Ideas Podcast
Guest on the MLST YouTube channel and podcast
Invited Talk at the ICDM 2022 Workshop Foundation Models in Vision and Language
Popularization in ML Research panel at the ML in PL conference. (2022)
Pair-AMA session at Weights&Biases about educational content, videos in ML and about the AI and ML community in general.
AI for good at the EAVI Conversations 2021
Deep Learning AI: Pie & AI at DeepLearning.AI community meetup
Why Multi-Modality is the Future of Machine Learning at the ML Engineered Podcast
Multimodal Learning: Integrating Vision and Language at StuTS 2020
January 2019 – July 2024
Thesis: “Measuring the Contributions of Vision and Text Modalities in Multimodal Transformers” focusing on benchmarking, interpretability and explainability of multimodal models (grade: summa cum laude). Read the thesis.
Published 12 papers in leading AI/ML conferences and workshops.
Taught two courses every year, organized independently (including lectures, exercises, exam / practical project, grading).
University of Heidelberg, Institute for Computational Linguistics
October 2017 - November 2018
Thesis: Segmenting Drone acquired Data for Structure from Motion Reconstruction
University of Heidelberg
October 2015 – September 2017
Thesis: Active Learning in Cell Tracking
University of Heidelberg
October 2013 - September 2016
Thesis: Evaluation and Improvement of the Cell Tracking Pipeline
University of Heidelberg
September 2013 – September 2016
DAAD Vollstipendium für Absolventen Deutscher Auslandschulen
July 2013
Liceul Teoretic „Johannes Honterus”