Bio

Academic positions

2017 –

Full Professor (Personal Chair in NLP) ILCC, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK Reader 2017–2022

2013 –

Full Professor (Hoogleraar, co-opted) ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Assistant professor (UD) 2013–2016; Associate professor (UHD) 2016–2024

2022

Visiting Research Scientist Google, Amsterdam / Berlin

2009 – 2013

Independent Research Group Leader (W2) MMCI, Saarland University, Germany

2008 – 2009

Postdoctoral Researcher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (supervisor: Dan Roth)

Education

2003 – 2008

Ph.D., Computer Science University of Geneva, Switzerland (advisor: James Henderson) Thesis: Exploiting Non-linear Probabilistic Models in Natural Language Parsing

1997 – 2003

M.Sc. & B.Sc., Applied Mathematics and Informatics St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia Thesis: Complexity and Approximations of Communication Spanning Tree Problems (advisor: N.N. Vassiliev, Steklov Institute of Mathematics) Top university graduate award (~summa cum laude, top 1%)

Short bio

Ivan Titov is a Professor at the Universities of Edinburgh and Amsterdam, where he also directs the CDT in NLP and the ELLIS unit. His research focuses on making language models trustworthy, robust, interpretable, and controllable. He has received awards at top conferences (e.g., ACL, EMNLP) and fellowships including an ERC grant and a Vici fellowship. Ivan is a Turing and ELLIS Fellow, and co-directs the ELLIS NLP program. He has served as program chair for ICLR and CoNLL, and as an editor for TACL and JMLR.