Prof. Timothy Baldwin
Provost and Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Tim Baldwin is Provost and Professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, in addition to being a Melbourne Laureate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, and Chief Scientist of LibrAI, a start-up focused on AI safety.
Professor Baldwin is the author of around 500 peer-reviewed publications across diverse topics in natural language processing and AI, with over 25,000 citations, in addition to being the recipient of a number of prestigious awards at top NLP conferences. He is also a co-developer of widely used LLMs for languages including Arabic, English, and Indonesian, with over 1m downloads on Huggingface. He has been featured in media outlets including MIT Tech Review, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Economist, CNN, Financial Times, IEEE Spectrum, The Times, and ABC News, and his research has been funded by organizations including the National Science Foundation, Australian Research Council, Google, Microsoft, Xerox, ByteDance, NTT, and Fujitsu.