Shaped by Change: Resilience and Growth in a Global Research Career
Resilience is a word we often hear in academia, but it is rarely taught. For me, resilience has not been a single dramatic event. Rather, it is a gradual, ongoing process shaped by experiences such as moving between research domains, tackling diverse tasks, and confronting challenges like adversarial attacks, all of which require continual adaptation […]
Smaller, Smarter, and Sustainable: Rethinking the Future of Large Language Models
For the past several years, large language models have captured the imagination of researchers, industry leaders, and the public. Bigger models, trained on more data with more parameters, have produced impressive results across translation, dialogue, reasoning, and creative tasks. I have worked in natural language processing long enough to appreciate how remarkable this progress is. […]