Ricardo Rei
Head Of AI Research at Sword Health
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Rei is Head of AI Research at Sword Health with a decade of experience building and deploying large language models, now focused on applying LLMs to healthcare. He previously drove Unbabel’s MT and evaluation efforts—leading development of the influential open-source COMET metric and serving as a key contributor to Tower LLM and EuroLLM projects across pretraining, instruction tuning, alignment and evaluation. Comfortable spanning the full model lifecycle, he combines deep research credentials (PhD-level work and academic teaching/mentorship) with product-facing responsibilities and client deployments. A pragmatic researcher, he’s repeatedly turned shared-task wins and open-source artifacts into production impact, and he brings a rare mix of evaluation rigor and operational experience to clinical AI development.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (85)
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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