CV

Manon Kempermann

Education

  • BSc Data Science and AI, Saarland University, Germany (2023 - 2026)

    • Average grade: 1.2 (~3.8 GPA)

    • Relevant Class work:

      • MIPS assembly: Rock, Paper, Scissors including random number simulator
      • C: Image edge detector, PageRank
      • Java: 2048 Game, Route planner, Compiler for C subset to MIPS assembly

  • Scottish Qualification Certificate, Kilgraston School, Scotland, UK (2021 - 2022)

    • Dresden Trust Scholar
    • Highers in Mathematics (A), Chemistry (A), Human Biology (A), Business Management (A), Latin (A), German (A)

  • Young Student, Technical University Dresden, Germany (2019 - 2021)

    • Psychology
    • Civil Engineering

Scholarships and Honors

  • Cusanuswerk Scholarship (2025 - ongoing)
  • Member of Honours Program of the Faculty for Computer Science and Mathematics (top 5% students), Saarland University (2023 - ongoing)
  • Dresden Trust Scholarship (2021 - 2022)

Work Experience

  • Research Assistant at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC) in Saarbrücken, Germany, working on LLM-Alignment in advice giving (05/2024 - ongoing)
  • Tutor Core Lecture “Elements of Data Science and AI” at Saarland University (10/2024 - 03/2025)

Publications

  • Jianlong Zhu, Manon Lilott Kempermann, Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Alexander Hartland, Rosa M. Navarrete, Giuseppe Carteny, Daniela Braun, Ingmar Weber: Learn, Explore and Reflect by Chatting: Understanding the Value of an LLM-Based Voting Advice Application Chatbot, ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI), Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.09806

Extracurricular Education

  • “AI Safety, Ethics and Society” Course by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) (02/2025 - ongoing)
  • Global Challenges Project Workshop in Oxford (03/2025)
  • ML4Good - 10-day intense AI safety upskilling bootcamp (03/2025)
  • Spring School “Clinicum Digitale” for digital health at EKFZ Dresden, Germany (03/2024)

Volunteering

  • Giving talks and workshops on AI and AI safety to general public and at schools (04/2025 - ongoing)

    • “What’s up with AI – Reality, Vision, Responsibility” – Talk at Open Campus Day Saarland University (05/2025)
    • “Let’s talk about AI” – Talk at Landesgymnasium für Hochbegabtenförderung St. Afra zu Meißen (05/2025)
    • “AI for non-Nerds” – Workshop at St. Benno Gymnasium Dresden (05/2025)
    • “Coded Creation – God and AI” – Workshop in Youth Church Eli.ja Saarbrücken (05/2025)

  • Accompanying seminars for weltwärts-volunteers as an alumna and teamer-in-training at the Internationaler Bund, Germany (01/2024 - ongoing)

  • “weltwärts”-Voluntary service at Pakashka Sacha, Tena, Ecuador (10/2022 - 08/2023)

    Pakashka Sacha is an organisation aiming to improve education of marginalised young indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest

  • Voluntary work at Musaik e.V. Dresden (11/2019 – 07/2022), giving violin lessons

Hobbies

Acitve in yoga, contemporary dance, running and climbing. Playing the violin.