Scholar
Markus Freitag
Google Scholar ID: t-VqdOUAAAAJ
Google
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,147
H-index
32
i10-index
49
Publications
20
Co-authors
52
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published numerous papers in the fields of machine translation and natural language processing. Involved in organizing multiple international conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ACL. Participated in shared tasks like WMT Metrics Task (2020 - 2025), WMT General MT Task (2021 - 2025), and WMT Multilingual Instruction Following Task (2025).
Research Experience
- Currently a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google, leading Google Translate Research and co-leading Gemini i18n. Previously, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Education
- Earned a PhD in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University in 2015, advised by Prof. Dr. Hermann Ney.
Background
- Head of Google Translate Research and Gemini i18n Co-Lead. Research focuses on multilingual Large Language Models (pre- and post-training), machine translation, and both human and automatic evaluation.
