Rate My Professor Timothy Baldwin

Timothy Baldwin is Provost and Professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). He earned a Ph.D. and Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology, along with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics and a B.A. in Linguistics and Japanese from the University of Melbourne. Prior to his current role, he served as Chair of the Natural Language Processing Department, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, and Acting Provost at MBZUAI, where he led the creation of new departments in robotics, computer science, and statistics and data science; recruited more than 25 new faculty members, doubling the university's faculty size; oversaw the accreditation of M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in computer science and robotics; co-led the technical development of Jais, the world’s leading Arabic large language model; and designed the inaugural Undergraduate Research Internship Program. Baldwin also holds the position of Melbourne Laureate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne and serves as Chief Scientist at LibrAI, a startup dedicated to AI safety.

Professor Baldwin's research centers on natural language processing, including deep learning, algorithmic fairness, computational social science, and social media analytics. He has authored approximately 500 peer-reviewed publications, garnering over 25,000 citations, and co-developed widely used large language models for Arabic, English, and Indonesian, with more than 1 million downloads on Hugging Face. His contributions have received numerous awards, such as the Outstanding Paper Award at EACL 2023, Best Paper Award at the EMNLP 2021 Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning, and multiple Outstanding Reviewer Awards from major conferences. Baldwin has served as President of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2022, General Chair of NLPCC 2021, and holds editorial positions on Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics and ACL Rolling Review. His research has been funded by entities including the Australian Research Council, Google, Microsoft, and the National Science Foundation, and featured in media like MIT Technology Review, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Economist, CNN, Financial Times, IEEE Spectrum, The Times, and ABC News.