Project
Master thesis: compact monolingual Transformer encoders for 16 languages. TiME-m keeps 98.4% of XLM-R-Large's task score at 3.9× lower latency.
David Schulmeister
Machine Learning Engineer at Ergon Informatik AG
I build efficient language-model systems, from model evaluation to production deployment.
About Me
I’m a Machine Learning Engineer based in Zurich, working on on-premises language-model applications for public-sector clients at Ergon Informatik AG, with a research background in multilingual model distillation at EPFL.
My work spans model distillation, fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment. I’m particularly interested in improving language-model quality and inference efficiency.
Beyond the Code
Outside work, I enjoy hiking, skiing, running, and learning languages.
Technical Interests
- Language-model training and fine-tuning
- Knowledge distillation
- Model evaluation and benchmarking
- Efficient inference and deployment
Publications
- TiME: Tiny Monolingual Encoders for Efficient NLP Pipelines RethinkingAI Workshop at EurIPS 2025, Copenhagen · arXiv:2512.14645
- A Human-AI Collaboration System for ADHD Assessment from Primary School Reports CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts (CHI EA ’26)
Featured Projects
Project
Explainable NLP system that helps clinicians assess ADHD from German primary school reports, published in CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts.
Project
Pipeline that generates synthetic handwritten math solutions, including corrections and scan artifacts, to train and stress-test OCR models.
Project
Bachelor thesis: generating hard-to-detect outliers in high-dimensional data by searching a learned low-dimensional manifold.
From the Blog
December 17, 2025
I recently reread Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, a book I first picked up years ago. It came out in 2014, so “at ten” is approximate. Rereading it in late 2025, with ...
October 08, 2025
In this post I want to share how I relearned French in about a year. What does “relearn” mean? It means I didn’t start from scratch. I had French in school for four years, but it was always my leas...
September 22, 2025
Earlier this month I attended the Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School (M2L) 2025 in Split, Croatia. Five days of lectures, labs, posters, and conversations with 300+ participants from 56 c...
June 18, 2022
This post is based on my seminar thesis at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (June 2022).
Get in touch
Questions about efficient NLP, model evaluation or putting language models into production? LinkedIn is the best way to reach me.