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Nikolay Bogoychev, Research scientist, Meta, United Kingdom

Presentation topic: MultiLoKo, a multilingual local knowledge benchmark for LLMs

Nikolay Bogoychev (or Nick for short) is a language nerd with a passion for foreign languages and cultures. He graduated with a degree in computer science from the University of Edinburgh. After completing his PhD in Machine Translation at the University of Edinburgh, he continued working there as a postdoc, working on creating free, open-source, high-quality translation models for end users. After a brief stint at a startup, he landed at Meta, where he works on training and evaluating LLaMa models and relentlessly advocates for improved multilingual support in all large language model products.

Links: https://nbogoychev.com/about

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z2hWTDMAAAAJ&hl=en

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