Ivan Titov

Ivan Titov is a Professor at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, holding a Personal Chair in Natural Language Processing, and also a Professor (Hoogleraar) at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam. He directs the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in NLP and the Edinburgh ELLIS unit, and is on the management team of the new CDT in Designing Responsible and Trustworthy NLP.

His research primarily focuses on natural language processing and machine learning. Key areas include:

• Robustness of large language models
• Interpretability of deep learning models
• Trustworthiness and controlability (e.g., editing and unlearning) of deep learning models

His research team has been supported by grants from ERC, NWO (Vici), UKRI, Google, SAP, Booking.com, and Amazon.

Scientific awards and fellowships:

• NWO Vici Grant
• ELLIS Fellow

Professor Titov has held significant service roles including program co-chair for ICLR 2021 and CoNLL 2018, and serves as an action editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).

Current PhD students under his supervision:

• Verna Dankers
• Matthias Lindemann
• Zeyu Huang
• Pedro Ferreira
• John Gkountouras
• Guillem Ramirez
• Jason Lin
• Neel Rajani

Past PhD students:

• Elena Voita
• Bailin Wang
• Nicola De Cao
• Yanpeng Zhao
• Serhii Havrylov
• Arthur Bražinskas