I am Elena (Lena) Voita, a Research Scientist at FAIR working on Natural Language Processing.

Before that, I was Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh supervised by Ivan Titov and Rico Sennrich, was awarded Facebook PhD Fellowship, worked as a Research Scientist at Yandex Research side by side with the Yandex Translate team, while enjoying writing blog posts and teaching.

Blog-course: NLP Course For You - look here.

News

2022

• Dec Keynote: BlackBoxNLP workshop at EMNLP 2022.
• Nov Teaching: Invited lecture at EPFL.
• Nov Job started: Research Scientist at FAIR.
• Oct-Dec Area Chair: EACL 2023.
• July Teaching: SICSS-Oxford.
• June-Sept Area Chair: EMNLP 2022.
• May-Sept Senior Area Chair: AACL-IJCNLP 2022.
• Feb-June Visiting SARDINE Lab: André Martins’s group at Instituto Superior Técnico.

2021

• Oct-Nov Invited talks: Helsinki LT Seminar, “Shannon meets Turing” Colloquium, “Young Innovators” talks (Austria), Glasgow IR seminar.
• September Papers: NMT Training through the Lens of SMT is accepted to EMNLP 2021.
• August Keynote: RepL4NLP workshop at ACL 2021.
• June Papers: Source and Target Contributions paper is accepted to ACL 2021.
• June Keynote: DeeLIO workshop at NAACL 2021.
• March-June Invited talks: Stanford NLP Seminar, CornellNLP, MT@UPC, CambridgeNLP.

2020

• Nov-Dec Invited talks: CMU, USC ISI, ENS Paris, ML Street Talk.
• September Papers: 2 papers accepted to EMNLP 2020.
• June-Aug Invited talks: MIT, DeepMind, Grammarly AI, Unbabel, NLP with Friends.
• April Papers: BPE-dropout is accepted to ACL 2020.
• January I’m awarded Facebook PhD Fellowship.
• January Keynote: NLP track at Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL.
• January Invited talks: NLP Highlights podcast, Rasa, Google Research Berlin, Naver Labs Europe.

2019

• September Papers: 2 papers accepted to EMNLP 2019, 1 at NeurIPS 2019.
• May Papers: 2 papers accepted to ACL 2019, one is oral.