Simon Forbat

I am a researcher at the Chair of Data Analytics. The chair is part of the Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim. I am supervised by Prof. Dr. Rainer Gemulla.

I am currently investigating different mixup methods for graph classification tasks.

FSS 2025:

• Deep Learning (FSS 2025): Tutorial & Assignments
• Seminar “Machine Learning and Time” (FSS 2025): Supervision

HWS 2024:

• Large-Scale Data Management (HWS 2024): Tutorial
• Team Project: Research Profiling (HWS 2024): Supervision

FSS 2024:

• Deep Learning (FSS 2024): Tutorial & Assignments
• Data and Web Science Seminar (FSS 2024): Supervision

Thesis Co-Supervision:

• Few-shot learning on tabular data (bachelor)
• Text classification using gzip compression (bachelor)
• Mixup for graph classification (master)
• Channel-dependence vs. channel-independence in time series forecasting (master)
• Direct multistep methods vs. iterative multistep methods in time series forecasting (master)
• Large-language models for time series forecasting (master)
• Visualization of the training process of neural networks (master)

Misc:

• Organizational support for the one-day workshop “Machine Learning Systems” at Jugendforum BW 2024