Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen
Department of Computer Science
Vermundsgade 5, 01.2.225
København 2100
de@di.ku.dk (FAQ)

09/26: Teaching Vision-Language Models at AthNLP

08/26: Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2026. Congratulations Manos and Mike!

07/26: Talking about understanding and explaining vision-language models at the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium.

07/26: One paper accepted at COLM. Congratulations Danae!

07/26: One paper accepted in Computational Linguistics. Congratulations Laura!

07/26: Teaching at LXMLS 2026 on Vision-Language Learning

05/26: One paper accepted at ICML 2026. Congratulations Benno!

04/26: One paper accepted at the 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop. Congratulations Gala!

04/26: One paper accepted in the Findings of ACL 2026. Congratulations Isra!

03/26: One paper accepted at the 8th Workshop on Clinical NLP at LREC. Congratulations Alice!

03/26: Talking about Efficient Test-time Scaling for Small Vision-Language Models at Würzburg University

02/26: I'm hiring a Ph.D Fellow to work on tokenization-free language processing. The application deadline is 8th March 2026 and I'm happy to answer informal questions via email.

02/26: One paper accepted at the Blogpost Track at ICLR 2026 on reverse engineering and model archaeology.

01/26: One paper accepted at LREC 2026 on creating open and evolving pretraining datasets. Congratulations to Kenneth!

02/26: Organizing the Second Workshop on Evaluation of Multimodal Generation at SIGIR 2026. Call for Papers coming soon!

01/26: Three papers accepted at ICLR 2026 on test-time scaling for vision-language models, token distillation, and in-language multimodal exams. Congratulations to Onur, Konstantin, and Isra!

01/26: Organizing the Multimodal Alignment for a Pluralistic Society Workshop at CVPR 2026. Call for Papers coming soon!

12/25: Received a five year Semper Ardens: Accelerate grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to develop the theory and application of tokenization-free language models. I will be hiring Ph.D Fellows and Postdocs from September 2026.

12/25: Talking about multilingual radiology report classification at the MMRL4H Workshop at EurIPS.

11/25: I will be a Program Chair for EMNLP 2026.

11/25: One paper accepted to WACV. Congratulations Danae!

11/25: One paper accepted at the EurIPS Workshop on The Science of Benchmarking and Evaluating AI. Congratulations Ruchira!

11/25: Talking about Language Modelling from Pixels at IVADO Regroupement 3 and the Mila Tea Talks Series

10/25: Talking about Efficient Test-time Scaling for Small Vision-Language Models at the University of Waterloo

10/25: I will be visiting the Mila until mid-November.

10/25: One paper accepted to IJCNLP-AACL. Congratulations Ram!

Photograph of Desmond Elliott