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.forbatuni-mannheim.de
PGP key: 1998 A746 59A8 9BA4 9129 51DA 560C 129B F733 5CFB
Phone: +49 621 181 2619
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 2026
- Deep Learning
- Seminar: Machine Learning on Structured Data
- Two team projects in the “Your Project, Your Team” course
HWS 2025
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 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)
- Prediction on relational data with automatic feature engineering (bachelor)
Service
- Workshop “Machine Learning Systems” at Jugendforum BW 2024
- Workshop “Big Data Processing” at Tage der Informatik 2025