Published multiple papers in top-tier conferences such as EMNLP, ASRU, ACL, NAACL, TMLR, NeurIPS. Won several awards, including the Best Resource Paper Award at ACL 2025 and the Best Task Award at SemEval-2025 task 11.
Research Experience
Former DeepMind Academic Fellow at UCL; currently an Assistant Professor at McGill University, supervising several PhD and MSc students.
Education
PhD in Computer Science from Saarland University
Background
An Assistant Professor at McGill School of Computer Science, Canada, a Core Academic Member at MILA, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair (in 2024). Research focuses on multilingual NLP and Speech processing, especially for low-resource languages.
Miscellany
Favorite Quote: 'Anything you find your hands doing, do it with all your might' (since 2006)