Ricardo Rei
Head Of AI Research at Sword Health
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Rei is Head of AI Research at Sword Health with a decade of experience building and deploying large language models, now focused on applying LLMs to healthcare. He previously drove Unbabel’s MT and evaluation efforts—leading development of the influential open-source COMET metric and serving as a key contributor to Tower LLM and EuroLLM projects across pretraining, instruction tuning, alignment and evaluation. Comfortable spanning the full model lifecycle, he combines deep research credentials (PhD-level work and academic teaching/mentorship) with product-facing responsibilities and client deployments. A pragmatic researcher, he’s repeatedly turned shared-task wins and open-source artifacts into production impact, and he brings a rare mix of evaluation rigor and operational experience to clinical AI development.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (66)
transformers10
python10
classifier10
datasets10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
speech10
gemma10
machine-translation10
pretrain10
multimodal10
nmt10
audio10
ai10
computer-vision10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Unbabel/nlp-seminar
May 2020 - Oct 2020
AI Reading Group
Contributions:29 commits, 29 pushes in 5 months
ai
Unbabel/MT-Telescope
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 release, 42 commits, 41 pushes in 9 months
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