Edoardo Maria Ponti

Edoardo M. Ponti is an assistant professor in Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh, an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting professor at NVIDIA. Previously, he was a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and a postdoctoral fellow at Mila and McGill University in Montreal. In 2021, he obtained a PhD in computational linguistics from the University of Cambridge, St John’s College. His research explores efficient architectures (with a focus on memory and tokenization), modular deep learning, and computational typology. His research earned him a Google Research Faculty Award and 2 Best Paper Awards at EMNLP and RepL4NLP. He is a board member and co-founder of SIGTYP and a scholar of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).