Jelle Zuidema is Associate Professor of Natural Language Processing, Explainable AI and Cognitive Modelling at the ILLC. He studied artificial intelligence in Utrecht (1993-2000), worked at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory-Paris and the Free University Brussels, obtained a PhD at the University of Edinburgh (2005), and did postdocs in Amsterdam and Leiden. With his PhD and MSc students, he did pioneering work in deep learning for NLP and interpretability methods for Large Language Models.







