Dr Majid Latifi
Associate Lecturer

Interests

My research interests mainly involve application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Data Science.
More specifically, I work in the following core areas:
- Question Answering Systems
- Conversational Systems as Sequence-to-Sequence based Language Generation Tasks
- Applied Machine Learning
- Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)
- Deep Learning (DL)
- Ontology based Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (LOD)

Qualifications

• 2018 - Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Career

Current Role:

• Associate Lecturer in the AI and Data Science team, Department of Computer Science, University of York since April 2022

Previous Roles:

• Lecturer (part-time ) at the School of Computing in National College of Ireland (NCI), Dublin, Ireland (2021-2022)
• Lecturer (part-time ) at the Computing Science department in Griffith College Dublin and Cork, Ireland (2021-2022)
• Researcher in Intelligent Data Science and AI Research Centre (IDEAI-UPC) at UPC University, Barcelona, Spain (2020)
• Post doctoral Researcher at ADAPT Centre in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland (2018-2019)
• Associate researcher in Machine learning and Machine Translation group, at ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin, Ireland (2017)
• Associate researcher at Computer Science Department, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain (2012-2017)