Dr. Jan Philip Wahle is a faculty member at the University of Göttingen . He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Göttingen and has been a visiting researcher at the National Research Council Canada (NRC) working with Dr. Saif M. Mohammad. Before his PhD, he worked as a software engineer for the autonomous driving company Aptiv PLC. His main research interests lie in computational linguistics and natural language processing with a focus on reasoning methods via reinforcement learning and agentic systems and AI safety via interpretability. His research has been presented at various conferences, including ACL and EMNLP, and won the ACL Best Resource Paper Award and the SemEval Best Task Award.
Here are updates about recent activities, such as talks, awards, travels, and workshops.
Nov 2025: 🎓 I defended my PhD thesis.
Nov 2025: ✈️ I will attend EMNLP in China to present our recent works on privacy leaking, spatial reasoning, and multi-agent debate.
Oct 2025: ✈️ I will attend the Korean Police Expo (KPEX) in Korea to present our recent work on fake news generation and detection.
Oct 2025: 🎤 I will give a talk at the Cardiff NLP seminar for Nedjma Ousidhoum's group.
Sep 2025: 🎤 I will give a talk at the University of Zurich for Sarah Ebling's group.
Jul 2025: 🏆 We won the ACL Best Resource Paper Award and SemEval Best Task Paper Award for our work on emotion detection.
May 2025: ✈️ I will attend ACL in Vienna to present our recent works on multi‑agent debate, meeting transcript synthesis, and multi‑lingual emotion recognition.
Jan 2025: ✈️ I will attend COLING in Abu Dhabi to present our recent works on paraphrase types and recency bias.
Nov 2024: ✈️ I will attend EMNLP in Miami to present our recent works on prompt engineering and summarization.
Jul 2024: 🎤 I will give a talk to the Volkswagen Foundation about AI tools in the funding process.
Apr 2024: 🎤 I will give a talk about NLP innovations for businesses to the company Eschbach.
Mar 2024: ✈️ I am visiting the group of Benjamin Roth in Vienna.
Feb 2024: 🎤 I will give a talk at the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI organized by Tommaso Caselli about Insights, Findings, and Recommendations for Paraphrasing and Plagiarism in the Age of LLMs.
Dec 2023: ✈️ I will attend EMNLP in Singapore to present our works on paraphrase types and cross‑field citation dynamics.
Nov 2023: 🎤 I will give a talk at MaiNLP at LMU Munich to Barbara Plank's group about our EMNLP paper on cross‑field citation dynamics.
Jul 2023: ✈️ I will attend ACL in Toronto to present our work on big tech influence on NLP research.
Apr 2023: 🎓 I got awarded a six‑month scholarship by the DAAD to visit the National Research Council Canada and work with Saif M. Mohammad.
Mar 2023: 🎤 I will give a talk at the Open Science Workshop organized by Birgit Schmidt about AI in the scientific writing process
Dec 2022: ✈️ I will attend EMNLP in Abu Dhabi to present our work on how large language models are transforming plagiarism detection.
My main research interests during my PhD were in language modeling and understanding via paraphrase generation and detection. After my PhD, my main research interests have shifted to reasoning methods via reinforcement learning and agentic systems and AI safety via interpretability. You can also find all my publications on Google Scholar .
I am leading several third-party funded research projects focusing on natural language processing, multi-agent systems, AI safety, and low-resource AI.
I develop and maintain open-source tools for the research community. These tools help researchers with common academic tasks like tracking deadlines, generating citations, and documenting AI usage.
Dr. Jan Philip Wahle
University of Göttingen
Papendiek 14, Office 0.209
37073 Göttingen, Germany
wahle {at} uni-goettingen {dot} de
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