Available for thesis & research roles · 2026

Amal
Nimmy Lal.

M.Sc. Computer Science at Universität Paderborn — working with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and machine-learning systems at Fraunhofer IEM and the DICE Research Group.

BasedPaderborn, DE
Email[email protected]
WebLinkedIn · GitHub

About

I build and fine-tune language models, retrieval pipelines, and the quiet research infrastructure that keeps them honest — from semantic search over scientific literature to object-localisation systems on an airport apron.

Lately: automated luggage handling at Fraunhofer IEM, cross-lingual semantic search published at ESWC 2024, and first-place wins at two Paderborn hackathons in 2025.

Experience

Student Assistant

JAN 2025 — PRESENT

Fraunhofer IEM — Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design, Paderborn

  • Contributing to the Automated Airport Luggage Handling project — identifying and optimising baggage stacking and transport to ensure damage-free loading.
  • Previously on the FastGate project: optimising object-localisation algorithms to accurately locate aircraft parts and airport infrastructure.

Student Research Assistant

NOV 2023 — OCT 2024

DICE Research Group, Paderborn

  • Co-authored the Materials AI Agent (formerly LASS KG) with Aleksandr Perevalov — a semantic search interface built for Springer Nature.
  • Fine-tuned BERT variants and LLMs (Mistral, Zephyr) for NER — reaching 90% accuracy and contributing to the project's published outcome.

Data Science & ML Scholar Intern

JAN 2022 — FEB 2022

Tathastu Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Noida, India

  • Exploratory data analysis across multiple datasets and feature engineering that lifted model accuracy.
  • Applied ML techniques to five real-world problem statements end to end.

Education

M.Sc. Computer Science

OCT 2022 — PRESENT

Universität Paderborn, Germany

  • Relevant coursework: Explainable AI, Unsupervised Learning (R), Prolog.

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering

AUG 2017 — JUN 2021

KCC Institute of Technology and Management, India

Selected Work

Publication · ESWC 2024

CLASS MATE

Cross-Lingual Semantic Search for Material Science, driven by Knowledge Graphs. Published in the proceedings of the European Semantic Web Conference 2024 (Springer).

Peer-reviewed
Winner · Vibathon Paderborn 2025

AI Calling Agent for Expats

End-to-end voice automation that helps English-speaking expats book appointments with German doctors — with real-time calendar integration. 1st of 13 teams at GDG DevFest.

1st Place
Winner · Makeathon XCHANGE4INDUSTRY 2025

Digital Data Vault

A data-networking concept for Werkzeugbau Berger GmbH, judged by Fraunhofer IEM and industry leaders. Won €3,000 and 1st place against 7 teams.

€3,000 · 1st Place
Academic Project

GenAI Requirements Generation

Team of five using GPT-4 and RAG to generate software requirements — reduced token usage by 15%. Led frontend work in React.js and Streamlit.

GPT-4 · RAG

Toolkit

AI & ML

NLP RAG Training & Evaluation Explainable AI Unsupervised Learning

Languages & Frameworks

Python R ReactJS FastAPI Streamlit Selenium Prolog

Off the clock

Fabric Painting Bollywood Dancing Travel & Event Planning

Languages

English German — learning Hindi · Malayalam

Contact

Happy to chat about research roles, thesis collaborations, or anything around LLMs and applied NLP.