Talks

Upcoming Talks and Events

  • Speaker at NLP Summer Workshop. Cardiff. July 2025. link
  • Speaker at NLP Simsymposium on “Evaluating Language Models: A Mirror, a Microscope, and a Map”. Copenhagen. June 2025.

2025

  • Panelist at DALI Sorrento on “LLMs for social impact workshop”. Sorrento. April 2025. link
  • Speaker at DALI Sorrento on “The Unscientific Science of AI Evaluation”. Sorrento. April 2025. link
  • Speaker at Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) on “Languages as Windows to Human Knowledge: Building Better Language Models Through Global Understanding”. Aussois. April 2025. link
  • Panelist at Google Gemma Developer Day on “The importance of open models”. Paris. March 2025. link
  • Speaker at Open Institute of Technology on “Building the Next Generation of Multilingual Language Models”. Amsterdam. March 2025.

2024

  • Speaker at OnDeck ML Research, NeurIPS on “Charting the Future of Multilingual Models”. Vancouver. December 2024.
  • Speaker at Local Language Partnerships Accelerator Pilot, UNDP. Online. November 2024.
  • Speaker at University of Tehran on “ساخت نسل بعدی مدل‌های چندزبانه”. Online. November 2024.
  • Panelist at Kaggle AMA. Online. October 2024.
  • Panelist at Nordic Data Science & ML Summit on “Building the Future of AI: Scaling Foundation Models and Agents for Real-World Applications”. Stockholm. October 2024. link
  • Speaker at Understanding Deep Learning Lecture Series on “Multilingual language models: Benefits and Barriers”. Online. October 2024.
  • Speaker at UKP-CIS Joint Invited Talk Series on “Building the Next Generation of Multilingual Models”. Online. October 2024.
  • Speaker at Sharif University LLM Journal Club on “مدل های زبانی چند زبانه: چرا و چگونه”.Online. October 2024. video link
  • Keynote talk at PyData Amsterdam on “The Art of Language: Mastering Multilingual Challenges in LLMs”. Amsterdam. September 2024. video link
  • Speaker at United Nations Development Programme on “AI and digitizing low-resource languages”. Online. August 2024. link
  • Interview with Max Welling on “C4AI Fireside Chat series”. Online. July 2024. video link
  • Keynote talk at SlaterCon on “Aya: A massively multilingual dataset and language model”. Online. March 2024. link
  • Interview with Mirella Lapata on “C4AI Fireside Chat series”. Online. March 2024. video link
  • Tutorial at AAAI on “Aligning Large Language Models to Low-Resource Languages”. Vancouver. February 2024. link
  • Interview with Jacob Andreas on “C4AI Fireside Chat series”. Online. January 2024. video link

2023

  • Guest lecture at Leiden University. Leiden. November 2023.
  • Invited talk at Toronto Data Workshop on “AYA: An Open Science Initiative to Accelerate Multilingual AI Progress”. Toronto. 2023. video link
  • Invited talk at ELLIS Symposium on Large Language and Foundation Models.Amsterdam. 2023. link
  • Invited talk at Schwartz Reisman Institute Seminar Series on “Mastering language understanding with AI: How multilingualism shapes LLMs”. Online. 2023. video link
  • Invited talk at Women in AI Summit as a nominee in Top 5 AI researcher category. Amsterdam. 2023. link
  • Panelist on The Turing Way’s Fireside Chat on “Who is building open source AI?”. Online. 2023. video link
  • Talk as part of the ACL Mentorship program on “When life happens: How to navigate challenging times in research?”. Online. 2023. video link

2022

  • Guest on Neural Search Talks podcast on “Generating Training Data with Large Language Models”. Online. 2022. video link
  • Talk at Transformers at Work III workshop on “From Transformers to work: advances in semantic search”. Amsterdam. 2022. video link

2021

  • Talk at Transformers at Work II workshop on “The power of semantic search: how and why?”. Amsterdam. 2021. video link

2020

  • Talk at Transformers at Work I workshop. Amsterdam. 2020.

2018

  • Invited talk at CL Seminar Series of the ILLC (University of Amsterdam) on “The impact of context on machine translation models.”. Amsterdam. 2018.
  • Invited talk at Machine Learning meetup at Amsterdam Politie on “The impact of context on machine translation models.”. Amsterdam. 2018.