Farid Adilazuarda

I’m an incoming NLP PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, advised by Edoardo Maria Ponti and Alexandra Birch. I’m part of the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) and the Edinburgh NLP Group.

My research asks a big question: how can we make language models better reasoners? That means figuring out how to train them with the right data, teaching them to leverage inference-time compute more wisely, and pushing them to work well across many languages. I care about efficiency, but even more about making systems that actually serve diverse communities.

Before Edinburgh, I was a Research Assistant at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi and a visiting researcher at the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt, where I worked on multilingual, multicultural, and parameter-efficient NLP—topics I still enjoy discussing!

I know how much research success can depend on access and opportunity. If you’re from an underrepresented group and think a conversation might help, feel free to reach out by email.