Tanja Schmidt has been a research associate and doctoral candidate since October 2021. Since 2025, she has been working at the IWM, where she contributes to the development of the intelligent tutoring system FeedBook and the analysis of data collected as part of the „AI2Teach“ project. Her work focuses on the automatic generation of linguistically variable practice exercises for English language teaching, as well as their adaptive selection and adjustment while a learner works on them based on the learner's profile.

Tanja Schmidt completed her bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, combined with professional training as an IT specialist. After working for a year as a software developer in an industrial company, she began a master's program in Computational Linguistics at the University of Tübingen, where she subsequently started her doctoral studies in Computer Science.