Edoardo Ponti
Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdoardo Ponti is a computational linguist and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh with nine years of multidisciplinary experience bridging humanities and AI. He researches how cognitive principles of language universals and variation can be hard-wired into neural models, combining formal linguistics, neuroscience, and deep learning. His academic path spans a PhD from Cambridge, a top-scoring MSc from Università di Pavia, and postdoctoral work at Mila and Stanford, and he has collaborated with industry via internships at Apple and a visiting role at NVIDIA. Based in Edinburgh, he balances rigorous theory with practical model-building, often exploring interpretability and cognitive plausibility rather than purely engineering-driven performance.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at University of CambridgeMaster's, Computational Linguistics, 110/110 with honours and and recommendation for publication., Master's, Computational Linguistics, 110/110 with honours and and recommendation for publication. at Università di PaviaDiploma, Neuroscience and Theoretical Syntax, Diploma, Neuroscience and Theoretical Syntax at Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia
English, Italian, German, Finnish
Github Skills (28)
acl10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
robotics9
causal9
alarm9
natural-language-processing9
clock9
deep-learning9
computer-vision8
python8
gpu8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
artificial-intelligence7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cambridgeltl/adversarial-postspec
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
McGill-NLP/polytropon
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 8 months
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