Marina Sakharova

I am a Master’s student at TU Darmstadt, studying AIML in my 2nd semester. I have been working as a data and AI engineer at two companies, however, I always wanted to do research, so I lately started working as a research student assistant at UKP, in a project about AI-enhanced collaborative reading and writing. My research focus lies in LLMs, especially LLM agent systems and fine-tuning LLMs for coding assistance, AI for databases and multimodal AI. My first publication, “Integrating Symbolic Execution into the Fine-Tuning of Code-Generating LLMs, Marina Sakharova, Abhinav Anand, Mira Mezini”, is based on my Bachelor’s thesis and was recently published at NAACL SRW 2025. Besides this project, I have worked on various other projects involving developing and evaluating AI for database applications, data engineering for AI systems, or developing software for an autonomous driving car. I have been awarded with Female Student Travel Award by ELIZA, and Deutschlandstipendium.