Publications
2025
- Non-linear age dynamics of malaria infection and fine-scale environmental exposure in rural Uganda. Lang, M. M., Tuhaise, V., Kafuko, P., Nakato, A., Mohamed, A., Nabatte, B., Kabatereine, N. B., Donnelly, C. A., Chami, G. F.
- hexsmoothR: Hexagonal Grid Smoothing for Satellite Data. Lang, M. M. Presented at IDDConf 2025
- Clinical outcomes associated with schistosome infection and alcohol use: a systematic scoping review. Lyne, B., Lang, M. M., Lewington, S., Chami, G. F.
- AVA – Study protocol for an AI-supported vaccination assistant to improve vaccination rates in patients with mild cognitive impairment in primary care. Sanftenberg, L., Bader, F., Bundschuh, T., Lang, M. M., Würschinger, Q., Kreuter, F., & Gensichen, J., Poster at 19th Vaccine Congress 2025
- AVA (AI-supported vaccination assistant) - Shared decision-making to improve vaccination rates in patients with mild cognitive impairment in primary care. Bader, F., Sanftenberg, L., Bundschuh, T., Lang, M. M., Würschinger, Q., Kreuter, F., & Gensichen, J., 59th Congress for General Medicine and Family Medicine 2025
- Telephone Surveys Meet Conversational AI: Evaluating a LLM-Based Telephone Survey System at Scale. Lang, M. M., Eskenazi, S., Accepted at AAPOR 2025. [Case study]
2024
- AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers. Wuttke, A., Aßenmacher, M., Klamm, C., Lang, M. M., Würschinger, Q., & Kreuter, F., Accepted at 80th Annual AAPOR Conference 2025 & NAACL LaTeCH-CLfL2025
- Pytector. Lang, M. M. A Python package for detecting prompt injection.
- Financial Times Chart Doctor Visual Vocabulary in German. Lang, M. M., & Smith.
2023
- Time Series Analysis of Climatological and Hydrological Low Water Drivers in Bavaria - Climex II. Hobelsberger, C., Kleinlein, L., Lang, M. M., Meier, T., Paschan, N., Schernich, J., Böhnisch, A., Sasse, A., Funk, H., & Küchenhoff, H. Accepted at IWSM Dortmund 2023.
Talks
2025
- Fine-Scale Environmental Risk Mapping and Non-Linear Age Dynamics of Malaria Infection in rural Ugandan Communities, Infectious Disease Dynamics Conference (IDDConf), Ambleside, UK
- Using AI Phone Agents to conduct impact research on a large scale, ID Insight
2024
- Transforming Surveys with AI Conversational Interviewing, University of Zurich, Digital Society Initiative
- Using Chatbots as Interviewers, New Directions: Bridging Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Survey Research at SurvAI-Day, University of Maryland
- Featured: IASS Webinar 42: Leveraging AI for Survey Research by Frauke Kreuter
2023
- Analysis of Climatological Drivers of Low-Flow Events in Hydrological Bavaria, Turing Institue ECR Connect 2023, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London
- Goodbye, Endless Feedback Forms. Hello, SurveyGPT!, OxAI Conference, 2023
Projects
Ongoing
- Malaria-Schistosomiasis co-distribution – Modeling disease co-infections in rural Uganda using satellite imagery and spatial statistics. DPhil project with SchistoTrack Group.
- AVA – AI vaccination assistant for patients over 60 with mild cognitive impairment. Lead developer of the voice agent architecture. Registered RCT, BMBF-funded. [LMU study page] [Trial registry]
- AI Telephone Surveys – Automating telephone surveys with conversational AI for 60 Decibels. Lead developer of the end-to-end architecture. 20,000+ interviews and counting, now scaling in emerging markets. [Paper] [Case study]
Open Source
- hexsmoothR – R package for hexagonal grid smoothing of satellite data
- Pytector – LLM prompt injection detection Python package
- RAG-nificent – Chainlit RAG application with Pinecone pipeline
- cuda-gis-smoothing – CUDA-accelerated GIS smoothing algorithms
- timeglobe – Like worldtimebuddy.com but awesome
Awards & Funding
- Oxford Population Health Scholar, October 2024 - Present
- AAPOR Student Conference Award 2025 — for work on LLM-based telephone surveys
- Vapi Startup Program, 2025
- BayFoNet – AI Voice Agents for vaccine uptake, 2025
- Early Career Researcher Grant, Primary Health Care Foundation Munich, 2025
- St. Cross College Travel & Research Grant, 2024, 2025
- Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Scholar, 2020 - 2024
My research is graciously funded by Oxford Population Health.
Teaching & Writing
- NDPH MSc Statistics Module (R Facilitator)
- An Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology using R – course material
- Fast Spatial Indexing with Morton & Hilbert Curves
- FT Chart Doctor Visual Vocabulary (German translation)
