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 of Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Amsterdam. At Edinburgh he directs the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in NLP and the Edinburgh ELLIS Unit; he is an ELLIS Fellow, a former Turing Fellow, co-director of the ELLIS NLP programme, and an investigator in SOFAIR, a UKRI-funded national lab for fundamental AI research. His research aims to make language models trustworthy, interpretable, and controllable, with recent work on sparsity and modularity, knowledge editing and unlearning, and interpretability. His work has been funded by an ERC grant and an NWO Vici and recognised with paper awards at ACL and EMNLP. He was Program Co-Chair of ICLR 2021 and CoNLL 2018, and an Action Editor for TACL and JMLR.