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I am a Reader at the University of Edinburgh working on fast and high-quality machine translation with colleagues in the machine translation group. More broadly, I make fast neural networks and language models; see my papers or CV.

I ran the project that launched private local machine translation for Firefox, desktops, and even runs an entire translation system locally on your machine inside a web page.

According to the New York Times, I am a native speaker of C++ "on semipermanent loan from the Internet" and my t-shirt collection is "threadbare."

Students interested in studying with me should apply to our PhD or the Centre for Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing. Natural language processing or systems background is a plus.

My company Efficient Translation Limited optimizes machine translation systems for production.

Brief CV

Edinburgh:Reader
Edinburgh:Lecturer
Bloomberg:Senior Research Scientist
Stanford:Postdoc
Edinburgh:Research Associate
Carnegie Mellon:PhD advised by Alon Lavie
Google:Software Engineer
Caltech:BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science

People

Nikolay Bogoychev
Nikolay Bogoychev
Research Associate
Laurie Burchell
Laurie Burchell
PhD student
Patrick Chen
Patrick Chen
PhD student
Barry Haddow
Barry Haddow
Research Fellow
Graeme Nail
Graeme Nail
Research Associate
Proyag Pal
Proyag Pal
PhD student
Jelmer van der Linde
Jelmer van der Linde
Research Assistant

Funding

Large projects: and industry collaborations with Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and the Alan Turing Institute.

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