Wende is a postdoctoral research on the Invisible Languages project. He obtained his PhD at Vrije University Amsterdam in Computational Linguistics and Text Mining Lab. Wende’s background is in Information Science and Software Engineering. His research focuses on computational methods for extending large language models to new languages and scripts. From a theoretical standpoint, he is also interested in the language-agnostic aspect of language models and how these can be leveraged to create cross-lingual models for a new language with limited resources.