I am Elena (Lena) Voita, a Research Scientist working on Analysis and Interpetability for NLP.

I am the author of the NLP Course For You.

Short summary:

• Research Scientist at FAIR (Meta AI) in 2022-2024,
• SIGREP president in 2022-2024,
• Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh supervised by Ivan Titov and Rico Sennrich,
• Facebook PhD Fellowship award in 2020,
• Research Scientist at Yandex Research side by side with the Yandex Translate team,

all that while enjoying writing blog posts and teaching.

News

2025

• Currently on sabbatical

2024

• Senior Area Chair: ACL 2024.
• Papers: LLM Interpretability: Neurons in LLMs, Information Flow Routes, LLM Transparency Tool (ACL Demo).

2023

• Senior Area Chair: EACL 2024.
• Area Chair: ACL 2023, EMNLP 2023, IJCNLP-AACL 2023.
• Teaching: Oxford-LLMs summer school.
• Invited talks: TTI Chicago, RISE Learning Machines seminar, University of Melbourne, Instituto Superior Técnico, UKP-CIS Joint Invited Talk Series.
• Papers: MT Hallucination Trilogy: Needle in a Haystack, Internal Workings, HalOmi dataset.

2022

• Senior Area Chair: AACL-IJCNLP 2022.
• Area Chair: EMNLP 2022, EACL 2023.
• Keynote: BlackBoxNLP workshop at EMNLP 2022.
• Teaching: SICSS-Oxford, invited lecture at EPFL.
• Job started: Research Scientist at FAIR (November).
• Visiting SARDINE Lab: André Martins’s group at Instituto Superior Técnico (February-July).

2021

• Keynotes: DeeLIO workshop at NAACL 2021, RepL4NLP workshop at ACL 2021.
• Invited talks: Stanford NLP Seminar, CornellNLP, MT@UPC, CambridgeNLP, Helsinki LT Seminar, “Shannon meets Turing” Colloquium, “Young Innovators” talks (Austria), Glasgow IR seminar.
• Papers: Source and Target Contributions at ACL, NMT Training through the Lens of SMT at EMNLP.

2020

• Award: I’m awarded Facebook PhD Fellowship.
• Keynote: NLP track at Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL.
• Invited talks: NLP Highlights podcast, Rasa, Google Research Berlin, Naver Labs Europe, MIT, DeepMind, Grammarly AI, Unbabel, NLP with Friends, CMU, USC ISI, ENS Paris, ML Street Talk.
• Papers: 2 papers at EMNLP, BPE-dropout at ACL.

2019

• Papers: 2 papers at ACL (one is oral), 2 papers at EMNLP, 1 at NeurIPS.