I am a Director of Machine Learning Research at Cambridge Cognition, where I lead a team of researchers working on the problem of detecting cognitive impairment and mental health issues from human speech. I am also a Science Lead at the non-profit organization ARVA, where I lead research efforts towards developing responsible and trustworthy AI systems. Previously, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, at the Interaction Lab and Natural Language Processing Lab.

As a researcher, I have researched and developed NLP systems for more than a decade in different countries across the world. This work resulted in over 60 scientific publications (h-index 18, 3000+ citations), 3 patent applications, and multiple invited talks and presentations. Several years ago I have organized the End-to-End NLG shared task which set a new research agenda for neural text generation. More recently, I co-led the development of the BLOOM large language model, and worked on several large multi-disciplinary collaborations, such as GEM benchmark and BIG-bench scaled collaborative benchmark.