16.04.2026
Welcoming Valentin Hofmann to MCML
Exploring How Language, Society, and AI Interact in Modern NLP Systems
We are pleased to welcome Valentin Hofmann as a Principal Investigator.
Valentin Hofmann is a Junior Professor for Information and Language Processing Using AI Methods at LMU Munich. His research combines machine learning with insights from linguistics and the social sciences to better understand and address limitations in natural language processing systems. He currently focuses on large language models, particularly on tokenization, sociolinguistic grounding, and bias.
Before joining LMU, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington. He completed his DPhil (PhD) at the University of Oxford and LMU Munich.
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Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2026 for Work on Accent Bias in Audio Language Models
A paper co-authored by MCML PI Valentin Hofmann on accent bias in audio language models won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2026.
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Best Thesis Award for Sohir Maskey
Former MCML Junior Member Sohir Maskey received the Best Thesis Award of the DFG Priority Programme 2298 for his PhD on graph neural networks.
