Curriculum Vitae
Jan Heinrich Merker, M.Sc.
Summary
| Name | Jan Heinrich Merker |
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| Address | Hohestieg 12 38118 Braunschweig Deutschland |
| Birthday | January 25, 1998 |
| [email protected] | |
| Phone | +49 174 9273954 |
Education
| 05/2023 - today | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Dr. rer. nat. |
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| 04/2020 - 04/2023 | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg M.Sc. Computer Science, Ø 1.5 Thesis: Identifying and Answering Health-Related Questions |
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| 10/2016 - 07/2020 | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg B.Sc. Computer Science, Ø 1.7 Thesis: Bias in Learning to Rank Caused by Redundant Web Documents |
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| 08/2008 - 06/2016 | Wilhelm-Gymnasium Braunschweig Abitur, Ø 1.7 |
Publications
| 09/2024 | J. H. Merker, L. Merker, A. Bondarenko. The Impact of Web Search Result Quality on Decision Making. In CLEF 2024. 100–112. Springer. | |
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| 09/2024 | M. Gründel, M. Weber, J. Franke, J. H. Merker. Team Galápagos Tortoise at LongEval 2024: Neural Re-Ranking and Rank Fusion for Temporal Stability. In CLEF 2024. 2384–2395. CEUR-WS.org. | |
| 09/2024 | J. H. Merker, A. Bondarenko, M. Hagen, A. Viehweger. MiBi at BioASQ 2024: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Answering Biomedical Questions. In CLEF 2024. 176–187. CEUR-WS.org. | |
| 08/2024 | A. Bondarenko, M. Fröbe, D. Hollatz, J. H. Merker, M. Hagen. DeepCT-enhanced Lexical Argument Retrieval. In ArgMining 2024. 29–35. ACL. | |
| 08/2024 | M. Fröbe, J. H. Reimer, S. MacAvaney, N. Deckers, J. Bevendorff, B. Stein, M. Hagen, M. Potthast. The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform (Extended Abstract). In IJCAI 2024. 8405–8410. IJCAI. | |
| 07/2024 | M. Fröbe, H. Scells, T. Elstner, C. Akiki, L. Gienapp, J. H. Reimer, S. MacAvaney, B. Stein, M. Hagen, M. Potthast. Resources for Combining Teaching and Research in Information Retrieval Coursework. In SIGIR 2024. 1115–1125. ACM. | |
| 03/2024 | M. Wiegmann, J. H. Reimer, M. Ernst, M. Potthast, M. Hagen, B. Stein. A Mastodon Corpus to Evaluate Federated Microblog Search. In WOWS 2024. 37-49. CEUR.ws. | |
| 12/2023 | J. H. Reimer, A. Bondarenko, M. Fröbe, M. Hagen. Stance-Aware Re-Ranking for Non-factual Comparative Queries. In ArgMining 2023. 45–51. ACL. | |
| 10/2023 | M. Fröbe, J. H. Reimer, S. MacAvaney, N. Deckers, J. Bevendorff, B. Stein, M. Hagen, M. Potthast. The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform (Extended Abstract). In LWDA 2023. 179–191. CEUR-WS.org. | |
| 09/2023 | A. Bondarenko, M. Fröbe, J. Kiesel, F. Schlatt, V. Barriere, B. Ravenet, L. Hemamou, S. Luck, J. H. Reimer, B. Stein, M. Potthast, M. Hagen. Overview of Touché 2023: Argument and Causal Retrieval. In CLEF 2023. 507–530. Springer. | |
| 07/2023 | M. Fröbe, J. H. Reimer, S. MacAvaney, N. Deckers, S. Reich, J. Bevendorff, B. Stein, M. Hagen, M. Potthast. The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform. In SIGIR 2023. 2826–2836. ACM. | |
| 07/2023 | J. H. Reimer, S. Schmidt, M. Fröbe, L. Gienapp, H. Scells, B. Stein, M. Hagen, M. Potthast. The Archive Query Log: Mining Millions of Search Result Pages of Hundreds of Search Engines from 25 Years of Web Archives. In SIGIR 2023. 2848–2860. ACM. | |
| 11/2022 | A. Bondarenko, M. Fröbe, L. Gienapp, A. Pugachev, J. H. Reimer, F. Schlatt, E. Artemova, M. Potthast, B. Stein, P. Braslavski, M. Hagen. Webis at TREC 2022: Deep Learning and Health Misinformation. In TREC 2022. NIST. | |
| 09/2022 | J. H. Reimer, J. Huck, A. Bondarenko. Grimjack at Touché 2022: Axiomatic Re-ranking and Query Reformulation. In CLEF 2022. CEUR-WS.org. | |
| 07/2022 | A. Bondarenko, M. Fröbe, J. H. Reimer, B. Stein, M. Völske, M. Hagen. Axiomatic Retrieval Experimentation with ir_axioms. In SIGIR 2022. 3131–3140. ACM. | |
| 11/2021 | J. H. Reimer, T. K. H. Luu, M. Henze, Y. Ajjour. Modern Talking in Key Point Analysis: Key Point Matching using Pretrained Encoders. In ArgMining 2021. 175–183. ACL. | |
| 07/2020 | M. Fröbe, J. Bevendorff, J. H. Reimer, M. Potthast, M. Hagen. Sampling Bias Due to Near-Duplicates in Learning to Rank. In SIGIR 2020. 1997–2000. ACM. |
Experience
| 05/2023 - today | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Research associate Databases and Information Systems. |
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| 11/2017 - today | Reimer Software Self-employed full-stack software development. |
| 10/2022 - 03/2023 | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Research assistant Media, Content Management, and Web Technology. |
| 04/2022 - 09/2022 | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Research assistant Big Data Analytics. |
| 11/2021 - 04/2022 | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Research assistant Media, Content Management, and Web Technology. |
| 04/2020 - 09/2021 | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Research assistant Big Data Analytics. |
| 02/2015 - 07/2019 | Klasse! Wir singen – Singen e.V. Minijob event management and team leader. |
Open-Source
| 02/2023 |
archive-query-log
Jupyter Notebook, 23 stars, MIT The Archive Query Log. |
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| 02/2022 |
ir_axioms
Python, 23 stars, 1 forks, MIT Intuitive axiomatic retrieval experimentation. |
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| 02/2024 |
mastodon-search
Jupyter Notebook, 5 stars, MIT A Corpus for Simulating Search on Mastodon. |
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| 07/2024 |
clef24-mibi-bioasq
Python, MIT MiBi at BioASQ 2024. |
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| 02/2016 |
material-intro
Java, 1738 stars, 305 forks, MIT A simple material design app intro with cool animations and a fluent API. |
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| 07/2024 |
ray-elasticsearch
Python, MIT Ray data source and sink for Elasticsearch. |
Awards & Grants
| 08/2023 | ESSIR Student Registration Fee Waiver 400 EUR |
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| 07/2023 | SIGIR Best Paper Award The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform. SIGIR 2023 Resource Paper. |
| 07/2023 | DAAD Kongressreisenprogramm
1.950 EUR The Archive Query Log. SIGIR 2023 Resource Paper. |
| 10/2022 | Deutschlandstipendium
2.100 EUR Joint scholarship from the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and the German Government. |
| 07/2022 | CLEF Registration Fee Waiver
100 EUR Grimjack at Touché 2022: Axiomatic Re-ranking and Query Reformulation. CLEF 2022 Lab Paper. |
| 04/2022 | SIGIR Student Travel Grant
1.350 USD Axiomatic Retrieval Experimentation with ir_axioms. SIGIR 2022 Resource Paper. |
Skills
| Languages | German (native), English (fluent) |
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| Code | Python, Kotlin, Java, TeX, JSON, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Elm, Bash Script, SQL, XML, Julia, Dart, GraphQL, C, Haskell, Go |
| Frameworks | IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code, Git, Docker, Android, Kubernetes, Spark/Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Flutter |
| Design | UI, Figma, app icons |
| Social | Student's Council, Faculty Council |