
Some Fun Facts
Instead of making a boring novel-style story about my 30+ life, I'd like to list some fun facts here. You are always welcome to check my CV if you're interested in learning more.
— I was born in the USSR(!), in the repubic of Udmurtia
— Prior to joining academia, I spent about 10 years working as a QA/software developer/researcher in Parallels, Kaspersky Labs, Yandex
— In 2014, I received a prestigious Fulbright grant to visit the US and participate in the cultural exchange program
— I attended in-person lectures of two great living philosophers: Daniel Dennett (at Montclair State University, 2014) and David Chalmers (Moscow State University, 2018)
— I was also lucky enough to meet Gerald Edelman
— I received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne in 2018 (check my PhD thesis; with Tim Baldwin and Trevor Cohn as my academic Cyril and Methodius).
— I'm a pescatarian and addicted to Melbourne coffee
— Countries I've been to (longer than 2 days): the US, Mexico, India, Israel, China, Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Malaysia, UAE, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Switzerland, Croatia, Luxembourg. Prior to 2012, I was an active hitch-hiker and a couchsurfer (I guess you may still find me on couchsurfing)
— In literature, I typically prefer sci-fi, especially Stanislaw Lem's novels. Unfortunately, only a few of his most popular ones such as ``Solaris'' were translated into English. But I am trying to improve this shortcoming
— In high school, Richard Feynman and Hypatia were my role models. I very much recommend you reading "You're surely joking, Mr Feynman". Also, Norbert Wiener's ``I Am Mathematician'' is a nice one
— I very enjoy logic and linguistic puzzles. Currently, I run a math circle for 5 to 9 yo kids
— I love poetry
— The evolution of my programmer's entity: Basic > Pascal > Delphi > C > C++ > C#/Java > Python
— I play the guitar 40 minutes a day
— On lazy Sunday evenings I learn Sanskrit
— From time to time my friends switch from science to art. Here I share some that are close to my heart.
— While reading/studying I prefer listening to Strauss' waltzes, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Schnittke. I also often attend MSO concerts
— Finally, I enjoy talking to other researchers abour their work. Some pieces I would definitely recommend you are:
— Linguist Nick Evans talking about indigenous languages in Australia;
— Linguist Michael Fortescue talking about Eskimo-Aleut languages;
— Astronomer David Jewitt on his discovery of the first Kuiper Belt object ;
Invited Talks
From Sign to Cosine: on Language and Computation. (UniMelb: May, 2024)
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A Glass Bead Game of *-ology: Contemporary Computational Approaches to Linguistic Morphology, Typology and Social Psychology. (MBZUAI: Mar, 2023; JNU: Nov, 2023; Sanskritologist Society: Dec 2023)
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Documenting and modeling inflectional paradigms in under-resourced languages. (Cardamom Series; Jan, 2022)
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The Secret Life of Words: Exploring Regularity and Systematicity. Episode II. (Keynote at SIGMORPHON 2021; Aug, 2021)
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UniMorph and Morphological Inflection Task: Past, Present, and Future. (SIGTYP Lecture Series; Aug, 2021)
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The Secret Life of Words: Exploring Regularity and Systematicity (w/Ryan Cotterell). (Moscow State University; Nov, 2020)
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What Do Neural Models "Know'' About Natural Language? (CHDH Seminar Series; Apr, 2020)
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Current Service & News
∮ May 10: An invited talk at The School of Languages and Linguistics (UniMelb)! Slides are now available
∮ Senior Area Chair for "Phonology, Morphology, Segmentation" (ACL 2024)
∮ Contributed to a chapter in "The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes" ("Word Classes in Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence" w/Mel Mistica and Francis Bond)!
∮ Supported by ECRG to work on "Leveraging Formal Approaches to Advance Technology for Under-Resourced Languages " in 2024! Interested in the topic? Apply for a PhD!
∮ Nov 23: An invited talk at JNU!
∮ Senior Area Chair for "Lexical Semantics" (NAACL 2024)
∮ Co-organiser of SIGTYP (EACL 2024), FieldMatters (ACL 2024), LoResMT (ACL 2024)
∮ September 13: Lightning talk at the School of Computing and Information Systems
∮ PC Member for WMT'23 and LChange'23
∮ August 28: Participating in a Panel Discussion on ChatGPT and Cognitive Science at CHDH.
∮ August 20: Presenting the School of Computing and Information Systems at UniMelb Open Day 2023.
∮ July 3 & 17: Chris Ewin and myself presented the School of Computing and Information Systems at Science Day 1 at UniMelb and BSc Orientation Day.
∮ Area Chair for "NLP Applications" at IJCNLP-AACL 2023!
∮ Area Chair for "Morphology, Phonology, Segmentation" at EMNLP 2023!
∮ Publicity Chair at ALTA 2023!
∮ June 21: Conducted two immersion sessions at GoGirlGoForIT. Title: "ChatGPT, Language Models, Stochastic Parrots, and The Infinite Monkey Theorem", Colab materials are avaiable.
∮ May 7--12: participated in Dagstuhl Seminar 23191: Universals of Linguistic Idiosyncrasy in Multilingual Computational Linguistics, served as an editor of the final proceedings (w/Sara Stymne). Proceedings are now available!
∮ Co-organizer of SIGTYP, LoResMT, FieldMatters at EACL 2023!
∮ Senior Area Chair for "Morphology, Phonology, Segmentation" at ACL 2023
∮ Academic Supervisor at SummerTech Live, working on ScienceIsland with Haoze Xia, Yuhong Guo, James Marshall