Rate My Professor Timothy Baldwin

Timothy Baldwin is Provost and Professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). He earned a Ph.D. and Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology, along with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics and a B.A. in Linguistics and Japanese from the University of Melbourne. Prior to his current role, he served as Chair of the Natural Language Processing Department, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, and Acting Provost at MBZUAI, where he led the creation of new departments in robotics, computer science, and statistics and data science; recruited more than 25 new faculty members, doubling the university's faculty size; oversaw the accreditation of M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in computer science and robotics; co-led the technical development of Jais, the world’s leading Arabic large language model; and designed the inaugural Undergraduate Research Internship Program. Baldwin also holds the position of Melbourne Laureate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne and serves as Chief Scientist at LibrAI, a startup dedicated to AI safety.