About

I am a PhD candidate at Vrije University Amsterdam in Computational Linguistics and Text Mining Lab. I am supervised by Prof. dr. Piek Vossen, Dr. Lisa Beinborn and Dr. Ilia Markov. Prior to my Ph.D. study, I completed a master’s program in Information Science and an undergrad in Software Engineering. My PhD research focuses on extending large language models to new languages and scripts. From a theoretical standpoint, I am interested in the language-agnostic aspect of language models and how these can be leveraged to create cross-lingual models for a new language with no resources.

Research Area:

• Multilingual language models
• Language Adapters
• Tokenization methods