Simon Forbat

Researcher

University of Mannheim
Data and Web Science Group
School of Business Informatics and Mathematics
B6, 26, Room B 003
D-68159 Mannheim

Email: simon.forbatmail-uni-mannheim.de

PGP key: 1998 A746 59A8 9BA4 9129  51DA 560C 129B F733 5CFB

About

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.

Research

  • Data augmentation for graph classification & applications of graph edit distance for graph learning
  • Tabular foundation models and their applications to relational deep learning

Teaching

FSS 2025

HWS 2024

FSS 2024

Thesis 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)
  • Simple GED-based models for graph classification (bachelor)

Service

  • Workshop “Machine Learning Systems” at Jugendforum BW 2024
  • Workshop “Big Data Processing” at Tage der Informatik 2025