I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in Natural Language Processing in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

I am a leading member of the StatMT group and a member of the Edinburgh Natural Language Processing group. 

I am co-founder of Aveni.ai - a startup developing AI solutions for financial services.  

My main area of research has been on multilingual natural language processing (NLP), but I am broadly interested in leveraging models of language to create compelling applications that improve people's lives.