Marko Sterbentz
Marko Sterbentz

Computer Science PhD Candidate

About Me

I am a computer science PhD candidate at Northwestern University in the C3 Lab advised by Kristian Hammond. My research focuses on leveraging AI and large language models (LLMs) to automate data science processes, enabling users to ask questions of their data and receive meaningful, contextualized insights.

Specifically, this involves:

  • Modeling and representing data science knowledge so that the system understands the range of actions it can take to perform data analytics.
  • Building mechanisms and tools for extracting information from databases, which includes training and developing text-to-query models capable of answering atomic questions.
  • Developing reasoning and planning methods that utilize the available data analytics knowledge and tools to provide contextualized answers to users’ inquiries.
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Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Question Answering
  • Neurosymbolic AI
  • Language Generation
Education
  • PhD Computer Science

    Northwestern University

  • MS Computer Science

    University of Southern California

  • BS Computer Science

    Idaho State University

News
Publications
(2024). Satyrn: A Platform for Analytics Augmented Generation. To appear at EMNLP 2024 (Main).
(2023). Lightweight Knowledge Representations for Automating Data Analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.12848.
(2023). Multi-domain Summarization from Leaderboards to Practice: Re-examining Automatic and Human Evaluation. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM).
(2021). From data to information: automating data science to explore the US court system. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.
(2021). Requirements for Open Political Information: Transparency Beyond Open Data. arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.03119.

Experience

  1. Research Assistant

    Northwestern University
  2. Research Intern

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  3. Research Intern

    Idaho National Laboratory
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