Declan Groves
Principal AI Engineering & Applied Science Manager at Microsoft
London, England, Ireland
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Top SchoolDeclan Groves is a Principal AI Engineering and Applied Science Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of experience specializing in language technology, Machine Translation and Responsible AI for languages beyond English. He bridges deep academic foundations—a PhD in hybrid data-driven machine translation—with product-scale delivery, leading teams that apply LLMs and ML to localize Office, Windows and Xbox content while optimizing quality, efficiency and cost. His career blends research and program leadership across NLP, localization engineering and multilingual feature scaling, and he has a hands-on background in developing MT systems and developer tooling. Fluent in French and versed in a wide technical stack from Python to C# and web technologies, he uniquely combines computational linguistics, software development and stakeholder-facing program management. An uncommon strength is his long record of coordinating multi-partner EU research projects and industry collaborations, giving him rare expertise in translating academic advances into production localization at global scale.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Applied Computational Linguistics, B.Sc, Applied Computational Linguistics at Université de Franche-ComtéPh.D., Hybrid Data-Driven Machine Translation, Ph.D., Hybrid Data-Driven Machine Translation at Dublin City University
English, French, Irish
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Github Skills (115)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DexGroves/universe
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 months
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DexGroves/dexml
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:44 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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