Farid Adilazuarda

I’m a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, where I’m very fortunate to be advised by Edoardo Ponti and Alexandra Birch. I’m a member of the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) and the Edinburgh NLP Group.

My research asks a big question: “How can we design foundation models that remember, reason, and evaluate well under tight compute budgets?” To answer this, I work on model memory, efficient inference, and evaluation. Currently, I study memory compression for long-context language models. I am also building a culturally grounded video/world-model benchmark.

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.