Ricardo Rei
Head Of AI Research at Sword Health
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRicardo Rei is a seasoned AI researcher and leader, currently Head of AI Research at Sword Health, where he guides the development and alignment of multimodal large language models for healthcare impact. He previously led multilingual LLM initiatives at Unbabel, shaping post-training for Tower LLM and EuroLLM and driving deployment across client engagements. As the principal developer of COMET, he helped set the standard for MT evaluation, a cornerstone of modern translation quality assessment. His PhD work on evaluation earned the EAMT Best European Thesis Award in 2024, underscoring a strong research-into-practice trajectory. He expertly bridges research, product, and academia—from CMU MAIA project collaboration to teaching awards at IST and invited lectures at NOVA IMS. Based in London, he brings a global perspective to turning cutting-edge AI research into scalable, real-world healthcare solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Summa cum laude, Summa cum laude at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (94)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
classifier10
datasets10
deep-learning10
speech10
machine-translation10
nmt10
ai10
ctc10
computer-vision10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ricardorei/Minimalist-Transformer-Classifier
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
This repo is a Minimalist transformer for sequence classification.
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 3 months
nlppytorchsequencebertdeep-learning
Unbabel/COMET
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
A Neural Framework for MT Evaluation
Contributions:17 releases, 244 commits, 69 PRs in 2 years 6 months
nlppytorchevaluation-metricsmachine-translationdeep-learning
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