Edoardo M. Ponti

Edoardo M. Ponti

Postdoctoral Researcher

Mila Montreal

Edoardo is a prospective postdoctoral fellow at Mila in Montreal, Canada. He is expected to complete his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in September 2020. In Cambridge, he was affiliated with St John’s College and supervised by Prof. Anna Korhonen and Ivan Vulić. As an undergrad, he studied modern literature at the University of Pavia, Italy. He works closely with Ryan. He previously interned as an AI/ML researcher at Apple in Cupertino. His research has been supported by a Google Research Faculty Award and an ERC PoC grant for projects co-written with his supervisors. His research focuses on few-shot multilingual learning and on text-based commonsense reasoning.

Native Language: Italian

Animal Form: Water bear (Tardigrade)

Interests

  • Inductive bias of neural models
  • Linguistic typology
  • Multilingual NLP
  • Multi-modal NLP