Hi! I’m Vlad. I’m an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. I specialize in machine learning & natural language processing, focusing on sparsity, structure, and geometry. I obtained my PhD from Cornell in 2018, advised by Claire Cardie, and spent some time as a post-doc in the Sardine lab, Lisbon, Portugal. I am a scikit-learn alumnus core dev.

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• Jan 14, 2026. Invited talk on continuous representation for efficient language models at Bamberg BamNLP.
• Aug, 2025. Teaching Structure Prediction at AthNLP.
• (Past talks).