I'm Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, and I -
I am currently looking for interns (I usually am, but also currently!). If you are interested, please email me a few paragraphs up to 2 pages on a research idea or proposal, and let's chat.
I have a varied background: I live in the UK and work in AI now, but I have a BA in Ancient Greek, and I have lived in many places around the world and worked in a few
different fields. My homes have been Tokyo, NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai - in those places I've worked both for Google and on smaller projects.
As well as being extremely passionate about NLP, I am a professional
sailor and spent a few years sailing the North Sea. I also study
Rinzai Zen, which is the type
with the riddles (koans) and samurai associations.
Feel free to check out my CV and my research/publications. Because I am not good at updating this site, my list of publications may be more up to date on my Google Scholar.
I started a blog in my MSc, but as is the case with all blogs, I wrote one article ever and then abandoned the enterprise. I do write some content at Cohere still. For instance, I wrote the 7 things to Know about Safety in NLP, which marketing rebranded as the Enterprise Guide to AI Safety, with no real change in content.
I am quite passionate about explaining things well, and frequently give talks and lectures. I mentor students (and sometimes co-supervise) and I accept interns at Cohere. If any of these things interest you, please feel free to get in touch!
If you need a blurb for an event I am speaking at, you may nick this one below:
Dr. Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant is the Head of Safety at Cohere, where she works on both
the practice and the theory of evaluating and mitigating harms from LLMs. She has a PhD
in NLP from the University of Edinburgh, with a focus on Fairness, and an MSc from UW, with a focus on generation.
Her research interests include the intersection of fairness with robustness and generalisation, cross-lingual transfer, and causal analysis.
Before her PhD, she worked as a Research Engineer at the Information Sciences Institute, and for many years at Google in Tokyo, NYC, and Shanghai.
She also spent two years as a sailor in the North Sea.