PhD Student
Tom Zehle
Postal address
Institut für InformatikAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Sekretariat Hutter/Maschinelles Lernen
Georges-Köhler-Allee 074
79110 Freiburg, Germany
Office
Building 074, Room 00-014
Hey, I’m Tom, a PhD Candidate at the ELLIS Institute in Tübingen and a member of the AutoML Lab in Freiburg, supervised by Frank Hutter. My main research interests are Agentic Systems, Prompt Optimization, and Fine Tuning of Foundation Models.
I finished my Masters in Statistics and Data Science at the LMU in 2025, and worked for Airbus from 2020 to 2025 as a Dual Student and Data Scientist.
I coauthored the Prompt Optimization Algorithm CAPO, as well as the Prompt Optimization Library Promptolution.
Publications
2026 |
promptolution: A Unified, Modular Framework for Prompt Optimization Proceedings Article In: Croce, Danilo; Leidner, Jochen; Moosavi, Nafise Sadat (Ed.): Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pp. 282–296, Association for Computational Linguistics, Rabat, Marocco, 2026, ISBN: 979-8-89176-382-1. |
Can Calibration of Positional Encodings Enhance Long Context Utilization? Proceedings Article In: Demberg, Vera; Inui, Kentaro; Marquez, Lluís (Ed.): Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, pp. 2268–2280, Association for Computational Linguistics, Rabat, Morocco, 2026, ISBN: 979-8-89176-386-9. |
2025 |
CAPO: Cost-Aware Prompt Optimization Proceedings Article In: AutoML 2025 Methods Track, 2025. |