Teresa Lynn - Head Of NLP Research Engagement at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)

Teresa Lynn

Head Of NLP Research Engagement at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)

Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland

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Teresa Lynn is a senior NLP researcher and manager with over 15 years of academic and industry experience, currently serving as Head of NLP Research Engagement at MBZUAI where she liaises with industry and government on large-scale research collaborations. She has a strong track record of building and leading multidisciplinary teams, securing significant funding (including a €750k government-funded programme) and driving national strategy for low-resource languages, particularly Irish. Her PhD work produced the first dependency treebank and statistical parser for Irish, and she continues to focus on Irish-language NLP, machine translation, parsing and language data management for AI. Teresa combines hands-on empirical ML and annotation practice with policy advisory, science communication and stakeholder engagement at EU and national levels. She also contributes to widely used resources like Universal Dependencies documentation, reflecting attention to reproducible tooling and community standards. Known for translating deep linguistic insight into practical language technology, she blends linguistics, engineering and program leadership to advance language equality.

11 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

Erasmus/ Computational Linguistics, Erasmus/ Computational Linguistics at Universite de Lorraine

Sacred Heart School Drogheda

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics at Dublin City University

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics at Macquarie University

English, French, Irish, Italian, Tagalog

Github Skills (2)

html10

documentation10

Programming languages (3)

ShellHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

UniversalDependencies/docs

Dec 2014 - Oct 2021

Universal Dependencies online documentation

Role in this project:

Technical Writer

Contributions:435 commits, 395 pushes, 11 comments in 6 years 10 months

Contributions summary:Teresa's contributions primarily involve updating and modifying documentation files within the Universal Dependencies (UD) project. They made updates to the `ga-dep-table.html` file, including striking out non-applicable labels and displaying subtypes. Additionally, the user updated and modified the `ga-status-table.html` file. These changes suggest a focus on refining and maintaining the documentation for the project's dependency parsing system.

dependenciesuniversal-dependenciesjavascriptonline-documentation

tlynn747/IrishTwitterPOS

Jun 2015 - Oct 2017

Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months

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