Ever since I first started working in the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing in 2009, I have been strongly convinced in the potential of NLP to help humans understand each other better.

Entrepreneurship - Co-Founder and CTO @ Bedrock AI

Research - Text Ranking, Controlled Text Generation, Representation Learning

Writing - Currently writing 'Designing Large Language Model Applications', published by O'Reilly

Open-Source - Co-chair of Privacy working group at Big Science (the group that released the open-source LLM BLOOM), Co-founder of PIISA, an open-source project building an interoperable framework for handling PII (personally identifiable information).

Leadership - Chair of the TMLS (Toronto Machine Learning Summit) annual conference in 2022 & 2023, NLP Lead at Aggregate Intellect, an ML community organization.

I regularly give public talks and seminars on NLP and large language models in particular.
If you are interested in collaborating with me on any of the above, do send me a message.
If you would like to brainstorm NLP/language models with me while walking the streets of downtown Toronto, do send me a message.

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