Professor Timothy Baldwin is the Provost for Academic and Student Affairs, and Professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

Prof. Baldwin spent 17 years at The University of Melbourne, including roles as Melbourne Laureate Professor, Director of the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies (in partnership with IBM), Associate Dean Research Training in the Melbourne School of Engineering, and Deputy Head of the Department of Computing and Information Systems. He has previously held visiting positions at Cambridge University, University of Washington, University of Tokyo, Saarland University, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, and National Institute of Informatics. His primary research focus is on natural language processing (NLP), including deep learning, algorithmic fairness, computational social science, and social media analytics.

Prof. Baldwin completed a BSc(CS/Maths) and BA(Linguistics/Japanese) at The University of Melbourne in 1995, and an MEng(CS) and PhD(CS) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Prior to joining The University of Melbourne in 2004, he was a Senior Research Engineer at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University (2001-2004). He is the author of over 400 peer-reviewed publications across diverse topics in natural language processing and AI.