Prof. Dr. Alexander Koller

I am a Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University. I am also a Professor by courtesy of Computer Science and Associate Faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

I lead the Computational Linguistics group and am the speaker of the Research Training Group “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action”. I am an ACL Fellow.

My PhD is in Computer Science from Saarland University; my advisors were Manfred Pinkal and Gert Smolka. Before coming back to Saarbrücken, I was a postdoc at Columbia University and the University of Edinburgh and a Professor of Theoretical Computational Linguistics at the University of Potsdam. I have spent sabbaticals at Meta AI in Paris and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle.

I am a huge fan of Typst and try to do as much of my writing as possible in Typst rather than LaTeX. I maintain the tracl template for *ACL papers and the Pergamon bibliography package. I also maintain the Typstit tool for dragging Typst formulas into other apps. In my spare time, I am a certified coach for a cappella groups and was an internationally certified contest judge in the Musicality category from 2023-2026.