Chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis)​
School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT)​
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Technische Universität München (TUM)​
Boltzmannstraße 3,​
85748 Garching, Germany

Phone 089/28917141
joshua.oehms@tum.de
Room FMI 01.12.038
Office hours: by appointment

Curriculum Vitae
Joshua Oehms joined sebis in July 2024. He holds an B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Games Engineering from the Technical University of Munich. In his master studies he focused on NLP tasks and developed a special interest in text simplification.

Research Interests

• Information Retrieval
• Conversational Systems
• NLP for Healthcare Applications

Open Thesis Topics
Master Thesis: Reducing Manual Effort in Medical Literature Screening (In Collaboration with MRI)

To produce high-quality systematic reviews, medical researchers need to populate and maintain dedicated databases including thousands of medical publications regarding their specialist area. Medical databases such as PubMed are searched at regular intervals to identify relevant new publications based on title/abstract and add them to their own specialized database. This process is currently carried out manually and consumes rare financial and temporal resources. We therefore want to examine approaches to automation based on a specific specialist area. As this topic is highly relevant to the field, it is very likely that a Master's thesis will result in a publication.

Helpful skills:

• motivation for interdisciplinary research
• Pytorch/Keras/similar
• experience with transformer models and their training
• experience with traditional Information Retrieval

If you are interested, please apply by email with your CV, your grade transcript and a short statement of why you are interested and your related skills.

Please use as subject line: MRI-Thesis-Application.