Alexandra Birch

I am a Reader in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

I am one of the leaders of the StatMT group - one of the largest and most influential research groups in Machine Translation.

I am co-founder of Aveni.ai - a leading startup in speech analytics and conversational AI.

My main research focusses on machine translation and multilingual dialogue.