Ivan VulicIvan Vulic is a Senior Research Associate in the Language Technology Lab at the University of Cambridge since 2015. Ivan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from KU Leuven, having achieved summa cum laude in 2014 on Unsupervised Algorithms for Cross-lingual Text Analysis, Translation Mining, and Information Retrieval. He is interested in representation learning, human language understanding, distributional, lexical, and multi-modal semantics in monolingual and multilingual contexts, and transfer learning for enabling cross-lingual NLP applications. He has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed research papers published in top-tier journals and conference proceedings in NLP and IR. He co-lectured a tutorial on monolingual and multilingual topic models and applications at ECIR 2013 and WSDM 2014, a tutorial on word vector space specialisation at EACL 2017 and ESSLLI 2018, a tutorial on cross lingual word representations at EMNLP 2017, and a tutorial on deep learning for conversational AI at NAACL 2018. Read More Read Less