Bio: Desmond is an Associate Professor and a Villum Young Investigator at the University of Copenhagen. His group currently focuses on tokenization-free language modelling, and multilingual and multimodal processing. His work received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at the Workshop on Visual Concepts at CVPR 2025, the Best Long Paper Award at EMNLP 2021, and an Area Chair Favourite paper at COLING 2018.

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Disclosure: My research has received financial support from the following organizations: