My name is Lj Miranda, and welcome to my website. Thanks for being here :)

I am a PhD student at the Language Technology Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where I’m working with Anna Korhonen. My research broadly examines how we can leverage data to train language models that are equitable, useful, and multilingual. I also have a special interest in improving the state of Filipino NLP.

My work has been published in several top-tier conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL. In addition, I have also served as a reviewer for various NLP and machine learning conferences and journals.

Previously, I spent time as a predoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) in Seattle. I also worked as an open-source developer at spaCy and as a consultant in the Philippines. Prior to working on NLP, I was a bioinformatics researcher studying protein function prediction.

Thanks again for stopping by! If you’re interested in reaching out, send me an email or book a call.

Short Background
Lj is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, working on multilingual and equitable NLP. Before his studies, he has over seven years of industry experience in consulting, open-source software development, and research, including work as a predoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI and an engineer working on spaCy and Prodigy at Explosion. Outside of work, he enjoys photography and game development.

This Blog

I started this site to tell the story of my tech journey. I believe in technology that is open, enabling, and life-giving. I aspire to usher that potential—even for just a tiny bit. But, there is still a long way to go, and this site records my progress. Here, you’ll find some of my thoughts, works, and notes on software development, machine learning, and research. I hope you’ll spend a nice time here, so go grab yourself a coffee and feel free to look around!

Contact

Lester James V. Miranda
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
Email: ljvm2 [at] cam [dot] ac [dot] uk
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)