Nolwenn Bernard
Information Retrieval research group and Institute of Data Science, Engineering, and Analytics, TH Köln
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences). Before that, I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Stavanger, Norway, in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Krisztian Balog. I visited Prof. ChengXiang Zhai and the TIMAN research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from November 2024 to January 2025. My main research interests are user simulation, conversational information access, and information retrieval. I am always open for discussion about these topics, so feel free to contact me.
In the past, I worked as a research and development engineer for MDPI. In this role, I had the chance to participate in research projects, some involving natural language processing, language modelling and social network analysis. Prior to that, as part of the my studies, I did some internships and had the chance to participate in student exchange programs.