We develop data-driven methods to understand and shape complex systems.

Our work focuses on machine learning for biomedical data and human language, and on educating the next generation of AI experts at Aachen University of Applied Sciences.

Research highlights

Biomedical AI

AnySleep

Illustration comparing conventional 30-second sleep scoring with AnySleep's high-resolution predictions of a brief wake intrusion.

Our AI model AnySleep analyzes sleep from flexible combinations of brain-wave and eye-movement signals. Its high-resolution predictions reveal brief changes obscured by conventional 30-second scoring. Published in npj Digital Medicine.

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Natural language

Language modeling

A German comment and its English translation contain annotated expressions of positive feedback and gratitude.

We adapt language models to specialized German-language tasks with limited labeled data, from identifying toxic comments to detecting supportive language. Our approaches achieved first place at GermEval 2021 and 2025.

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Research in practice

SomnoBot

SomnoBot's homepage introduces browser-based sleep analysis.

SomnoBot lets researchers analyze sleep recordings in a web browser. Our AI models AnySleep and SUMO run locally on their computer, without uploading patient data or installing specialist software.

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🎉 We celebrate the publication of our AnySleep paper in npj Digital Medicine! Our open-source model analyzes sleep from flexible combinations of EEG and EOG signals and provides sleep-stage predictions at adjustable temporal resolutions. We trained and validated AnySleep on more than 20,000 overnight recordings across 28 datasets. 📄 Read the paper, explore the code, and try it out online.

💬 How can we encourage students to engage with assignments when AI can generate the answers? At the AI summit 2026 in Aachen, Stephan shared an experiment from our Data Science course which focuses on making individual understanding visible through human interaction.

👨‍🏫 When does AI become reliable in practice? At the AI summit 2026 in Aachen, Stephan joined Ingo Elsen, Alexander Ferrein, and Markus Zimmermann for a talk and panel discussion on this question.