Andrei Popescu-Belis

Andrei Popescu-Belis is a Professor of Computer Science at the Haute-École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD / HES-SO) and an external Senior Lecturer and Researcher at EPFL's EDEE-ENS unit. His work focuses on human language technology and its applications to information access, with a strong emphasis on natural language processing and machine translation.

His research addresses barriers to information access through technologies like:

• Quantity barrier: Information retrieval, web search, document classification, topic models, learning to rank, question answering, recommender systems
• Crosslingual barrier: Machine translation (history of the field, rule-based systems, statistical systems including phrase-based models)

He has supervised numerous doctoral theses at EPFL, including students such as Li Yiming, Habibi Maryam, and Meyer Thomas. At EPFL, he teaches the doctoral course Human Language Technology: Applications to Information Access (EE-724), focusing on advanced techniques in this domain.

Contact: andrei.popescu-belis@epfl.ch