Javier Ferrando

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I am a final year PhD student at the MTUPC group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), supervised by Marta R. Costa-jussà. During my PhD I have been fortunate enough to do research internships at AI at Meta (FAIR), in the Machine Translation team at Apple, and in the Books Science team at Amazon. Before starting my PhD, I completed a MsC Data Science also at UPC, during which I worked part-time at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

My research focuses on interpretability and analysis of NLP models, with a broader interest in Explainable AI. My current focus revolves around understanding Language Models, while also exploring areas such as Machine Translation and multilingual NLP. Apart from research, I have also been a teacher assistant at several courses in the Computer Science and Telecommunications departments at UPC.

I’m on the job market for 2024. If you believe there is a potential match, please feel free to reach out.