Dimitar Shterionov
Assistant Professor at the Department of Intelligent Systems, at Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Dr Dr Dimitar Shterionov is an assistant professor at the Department of Intelligent Systems, at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His research in MT and NLP focuses on sign language MT, quality estimation, evaluation and automatic post-editing, Large and Small Language models and the impact of language technology on environment and society. Dimitar obtained a PhD in computer science engineering from KU Leuven in 2015 on the topic of Probabilistic Logic and Learning. After working as head of research in KantanMT where his team developed the first cloud-based, customizable and publically available neural machine translation solution, released in early 2017, Dimitar joined the research team of Prof Andy Way at Dublin City University, Ireland. In August 2020, he assumed a tenure track assistant professor position at Tilburg University. Dimitar was the technical and scientific lead of the SignON project (www.signon-project.edu) that developed a mobile application and an open framework for automatic translation between signed and spoken languages. Dimitar is currently the head of the Inclusive and Sustainable Multilingual Technologies group at Tilburg University. The group focuses on addressing topics such as environmental aspects and sustainability of multilingual technologies, inclusiveness of less-represented languages (e.g. sign languages) and of people; bias in data and models and interpretability.
is an assistant professor at the Department of Intelligent Systems, at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His research in MT and NLP focuses on sign language MT, quality estimation, evaluation and automatic post-editing, Large and Small Language models and the impact of language technology on environment and society. Dimitar obtained a PhD in computer science engineering from KU Leuven in 2015 on the topic of Probabilistic Logic and Learning. After working as head of research in KantanMT where his team developed the first cloud-based, customizable and publically available neural machine translation solution, released in early 2017, Dimitar joined the research team of Prof Andy Way at Dublin City University, Ireland. In August 2020, he assumed a tenure track assistant professor position at Tilburg University. Dimitar was the technical and scientific lead of the SignON project (www.signon-project.edu) that developed a mobile application and an open framework for automatic translation between signed and spoken languages. Dimitar is currently the head of the Inclusive and Sustainable Multilingual Technologies group at Tilburg University. The group focuses on addressing topics such as environmental aspects and sustainability of multilingual technologies, inclusiveness of less-represented languages (e.g. sign languages) and of people; bias in data and models and interpretability.