Dr. Michael A. Hedderich
I’m a Junior Research Group Leader (a German equivalent to assistant professor) at Munich University (LMU), affiliated with the MaiNLP group and the Munich Center for Machine Learning. I’m also a member of the ELLIS Society.
My research covers the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing and human-computer interaction studying how we can enable users to comprehensively explain, evaluate, understand and control the complex behavior of modern LLMs and GenAI models.
I’m both interested in developing new technology as well as building bridges from AI to other interested fields. To this end, my work includes technical and foundational methods, human-centered approaches, and applications in fields ranging from archaeology to medical research.
Here are more infos about my group and possibilities to join us. You can also check out our recent publications.
News
| Jul 2026 | Congratulations to Florian for the accepted ICML paper on ExPLAIND, a new interpretability method that unifies perspectives on data, model component and training dynamics 🇰🇷 |
| Jul 2026 | Congratulations to Raoyuan for two accepted papers at ACL on model robustness and multilingual reasoning! I was also involved on ACL papers on steering as a method for adaptation, pre-training for African languages and script representation in speech models 🇺🇸 |
| Jun 2026 | I’ll give a talk on LLM technology for Digital Humanities at Stuttgart University 📖 |
| May 2026 | I got interviewed by Deutschlandfunk (German national radio) for a report on small language models 📻 |
| Apr 2026 | I’ll join the MCML delegation to London, Oxford and Cambridge in April. If you want to meet-up, just let me know 🇬🇧 |
| Apr 2026 | I’m co-organizing a workshop on “Future Uses of AI in Archaeology” as part of the MAIA EU Cost Action event in Hainburg, Austria 🏛️ |
| Feb 2026 | Congratulations to Raoyuan for an EACL Findings paper on multilingual reasoning evaluation and Pedro (University of Vienna) for a main paper on effects of long contexts 🇲🇦 |
Affiliations
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Munich University (LMU), Germany, affiliated with the MainNLP group lead by Barbara Plank. | .
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Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), one of the six German AI Competence Centers. |
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Cornell University, USA, as post-doc with the group of Qian Yang. |
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Aalto University, Finland, in the Computational Behavior Lab group of Antti Oulasvirta. |
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Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany, at the Spoken Language Systems (LSV) group of Dietrich Klakow, where I did my PhD. |
Contact
mail@michael-hedderich.de