Activities

Invited Talks and Panels

• 2026
  • Cohere Labs Open Science Community (Online) — Talk: Towards Crosslingual Evaluation of General-Purpose Instruction-Following Models Across Text, Speech, and Vision
• 2025
  • MT Maraton (Helsinki, Finland) — Talk: Speech Translation in the LLM Era: Between Old and New Challenges
  • SlatorCon Remote (Online) — Talk: How “Real” is your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text System?
• 2024
  • IWSLT 2024 (Bangkok, Thailand) — Panel: Emerging trends in Speech Translation

Workshops and Shared Tasks

• 2026
  • IWSLT 2026 (San Diego, California) — Chair of the Instruction Following Shared Task
  • IWSLT 2026 (San Diego, California) — Organizer of the Simultaneous Translation Shared Task
• 2025
  • IWSLT 2025 (Vienna, Austria) — Chair of the Instruction Following Shared Task
  • IWSLT 2025 (Vienna, Austria) — Organizer of the Simultaneous Translation Shared Task
• 2024
  • EACL 2024 Student Research Workshop — Student Program Chair of the Workshop
  • IWSLT 2024 (Bangkok, Thailand) — Organizer of the Subtitling Shared Task

Students Supervision

• Amirbek Djanibekov (PhD Student at MBDUAI) — Internship Supervisor (2025-present)
• Zhihang Xie (PhD Student at FBK) — PhD Co-Advisor (2025-present)