Barry Haddow

Barry Haddow has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Barry is currently the Head of Natural Language Processing at Aveni since October 2019. Prior to that, they held multiple roles at The University of Edinburgh, including Senior Research Fellow from May 2015 to present, and Research Fellow from January 2008 to May 2015. During their time at the university, they worked on various projects involving statistical machine translation and natural language processing techniques. Before joining the university, Barry worked as a Software Developer at Manowave from October 2003 to April 2004. Barry also worked as a Consultant at Orbism from September 1998 to September 2003, specializing in middleware and working with clients such as O2, Vodafone, and Credit Suisse.

Barry Haddow pursued their education in a chronological manner. Barry completed their secondary education at Alva Academy from 1981 to 1986. Barry then went on to pursue a PhD in Mathematical Physics at the University of Aberdeen, where they studied from 1986 to 1994. Afterward, they attended University College Dublin from 1997 to 1998, where they obtained a Higher Diploma in Computer Science. Finally, in 2004 to 2005, they attended The University of Edinburgh, where they obtained an MSc in Artificial Intelligence.