Ivan Vulic

Dr. Ivan Vulic is a Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. He leads research in multilingual lexical acquisition and knowledge transfer under the ERC-funded LEXICAL project, while also holding a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. His work spans cross-lingual and multi-modal natural language processing, with a focus on representation learning and responsible AI applications for low-resource languages.

Research Interests

• Cross-lingual and multilingual NLP
• Representation learning for language models
• Multi-modal semantics (vision-text-speech)
• Few-shot and unsupervised learning
• Debiasing and safety in ML/NLP
• Language acquisition and computational modeling

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, KU Leuven (awarded summa cum laude with congratulations of the board of examiners)

Awards & Recognition

• 2021 Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award for contributions to NLP and information retrieval

Additional Affiliations

• Visiting Researcher at Google DeepMind (Zurich)
• Former Senior/Principal Scientist at PolyAI (2018-2024)