His research has been featured in The Economist and Scientific American, among others. He received a Google Research Faculty Award and 2 Best Paper Awards at EMNLP 2021 and RepL4NLP 2019. He is a board member of SIGTYP, the ACL special interest group for computational typology, a Scholar of ELLIS, and part of the TACL journal editorial team.
Research Experience
Was a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at Mila - Quebec AI Institute in Montreal.
Education
Obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge, St John’s College in 2021; studied typological and historical linguistics at the University of Pavia.
Background
Research interests include efficient architectures, modular deep learning, and computational typology. He is an assistant professor in Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh and a visiting professor at NVIDIA.
Miscellany
Supervises multiple PhD students and postdocs, with research areas covering model merging, causal discovery, computational typology, and more.