Alex Flückiger

Alex Flückiger

Software Engineer (NLP) | Sociologist | Lecturer

About

I studied Sociology and Computational Linguistics, bringing together my interest in Computational Social Science. Driven by sociological curiosity and rapidly-developing technological opportunities, I like to investigate the past, the current, and the future of society at small and large scale. Moreover, I possess a strong passion for natural language processing (NLP), enabling new forms of retrieving and extracting information from vast text collections using state-of-the-art techniques.

Currently, I work as Software Engineer at Textshuttle building highly customized and cross-lingual language technology. Additionally, I teach at the University of Lucerne as a guest lecturer introducing methods of computational text analysis to students of social science and promoting digital literacy.

Get in touch. I am happy to answer questions, learning about your projects or just have a talk about coffee, beer and other important ingredients of life.

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Fairness in socio-technical systems
Education
  • M.A. in Sociology, University of Lucerne, 2016 – 2020

    University of Lucerne

  • B.A. in Society and Communication Science, 2012 – 2016

    University of Lucerne

  • Apprenticeship IT System Engineer, 2006 – 2010

    Federal Office of Information Technology

Teaching