I am Elena (Lena) Voita, a Research Scientist at FAIR working on Analysis and Interpetability for NLP.
Also, NLP Course For You creator and current SIGREP president.
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.
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2023
- January Invited talks: TTI Chicago, RISE Learning Machines seminar.
- Jan-Apr Area Chair: ACL 2023.
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.