Hewan Shrestha
Doctoral Researcher
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
I am a Doctoral Researcher at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany. My work is about how we judge whether an AI system is actually any good. I build the datasets, evaluation methods and documentation that make claims about language models and AI research assistants possible to check. This work is part of NFDI4DS, Germany’s national research data infrastructure for data science and artificial intelligence.
Before this I spent three years as a Research Assistant in the Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC) led by Prof. Dr. Ingmar Weber, estimating mobility in conflict-affected regions from low-resolution satellite imagery. I hold an M.Sc. in Visual Computing from Saarland University, where my thesis on multimodal misinformation detection was supervised by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow and Dr. Usman Naseem. I received my Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, India, and completed my Bachelors thesis in collaboration with Innopolis University, Russia, supervised by Prof. Dr. Manuel Mazzara.
