About me

I'm Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, and I -

• am doing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in ILCC, advised by Adam Lopez, in Fairness for NLP, with a focus on Transfer learning and Multilinguality.
• have an MSc in NLP from University of Washington
• did research in Creative Neural Natural Language Generation (a mouthful, aka NLG for short), at the Information Sciences Institute in the lab of Nanyun (Violet) Peng.
• think this bio reminds me a bit of this.

I have a varied background: 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, California, 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.

I also started a blog, where I will explain my research (and sometimes some other people’s) in a way that I hope is understandable to anyone curious enough to read it.