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PhD in Information Systems

University of Zurich — Thesis: "Personalized Adherence Companion: Realizing Human-Centric Persuasion Through Generative Artificial Intelligence"

M.A., Computational Linguistics

University of Zurich — Thesis: "Cross-lingual Projection of Text Zoning Labels for Job Advertisements"

B.A., German Language and Literature

Lanzhou University, China — Thesis: "Assessment of the Quality of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in German-Chinese Translation"

• Applied LLM systems: build and evaluate conversational agents for behavior change in chronic-condition management, AI-blended psychotherapy (CBT), and education — from prompt design and dialogue orchestration through to user studies.
• Co-developed PROMISE, an open-source model-driven framework that drives multi-turn LLM dialogue through hierarchically nested state machines.
• Ship LLM services on managed cloud (Azure OpenAI) and self-hosted Linux servers (Ansible, Nginx), keeping privacy-sensitive health data on premises where required.
• Work within a four-partner Innosuisse consortium (ZHAW, UZH, COBEDIAS, Helmedica AG), partnering with ZHAW on development and evaluation; systems field-tested in clinics across Canton Zurich.
• Teaching assistant for Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (2024—2027); supervise master's and bachelor's theses and student projects.

• Advise on LLM use cases, system design, and privacy-compliant deployment in the public sector.
• Advise on LLM-assisted guidance tools for university career services and on how to evaluate them.

• Sample collection and documentation under regulated EU/CH anti-doping testing protocols, with strict procedural compliance and athlete data confidentiality.

• Advised on German—Chinese market entry in both directions, including real-estate ventures.
• Owned end-to-end delivery for a German client exhibiting at a Shanghai trade fair for overseas property, immigration, education, and investment.