Anej Svete
Hey! I’m Anej.1 I’m a second-year PhD fellow at the ETH AI Center, where I’m co-advised by prof. Ryan Cotterell and prof. Valentina Boeva.
My main research interests lie in the intersection of formal language theory and modern language models, where I am trying to understand what language models such as transformers and recurrent neural networks can do: Which tasks can they provably (not) solve? What aspects of language can they capture? How can they “reason”?
Before starting my PhD, I obtained a master’s degree in data science at ETH Zürich after completing my bachelor’s studies in computer science and mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. You can find my full CV here.
Outside of work, I enjoy reading, cooking, running and hiking. My absolutely favorite (somewhat eccentric) hobby is aquascaping.
I think the easiest way to figure out how to pronounce my name is to imagine saying “an a” in American English. It’s not perfect, but close enough. :) ↩