Hi, welcome to my page! I’m Surafel, currently an applied scientist at Amazon AI.

Previously, I was a doctoral candidate at the ICT Doctoral School University of Trento and at the HLT-MT lab Fondazione Bruno Kessler. My dissertation focuses on Multilingual Neural Machine Translation, particularly for low-resource languages.

Updates

• Sep 2022: Paper Isochrony-Aware Neural Machine Translation for Automatic Dubbing, published at InterSpeech 2022.
• May 2022: Paper Isometric MT: Neural MT for Automatic Dubbing published at ICASSP 2022.
• Apr 2022: Invited talk at University of Luxembourg on multilingual neural machine translation.
• Sep 2021: Paper Machine Translation Verbosity Control for Automatic Dubbing published at ICASSP 2021.
• Aug 2021: paper Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation with Self-Learning Cycle published at LoResMT 2021 - best paper award.
• Aug 2020: Started working as an applied scientist at Amazon AI
• Apr 2020: Defended my doctoral dissertation.
• Apr 2019: Started internship as an applied scientist at Amazon AI
• Nov 2018: Blog about Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties and Dialects.
• Oct 2018: Launched this website for organizing & blogging about my work and other interesting topics.