Navigating the PhD Journey

Andre Martins is an Associate Professor at IST and VP of AI Research at Unbabel in Lisbon, Portugal. His research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning. Andre’s PhD thesis is titled, "The Geometry of Constrained Structured Prediction: Applications to Inference and Learning of Natural Language Syntax", which he completed in 2012 at Carnegie Mellon University and IST. We talk about his work in the thesis on structured prediction in NLP, and discuss connections between his thesis work on later work on sparsity, sparse communication, and more. - Episode notes: https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/episode32.html - Follow the Thesis Review (@thesisreview) and Sean Welleck (@wellecks) on Twitter - Find out more info about the show at https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/podcast.html - Support The Thesis Review at www.patreon.com/thesisreview or www.buymeacoffee.com/thesisreview