Tim Baldwin is Acting Provost and a Professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), in addition to being a Melbourne Laureate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne.

Tim 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. He then worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, before taking up a faculty position at The University of Melbourne in 2004. In 2022, he relocated to Abu Dhabi as Chair of the NLP Department and Associate Provost at MBZUAI.

Tim's research has been funded by organisations including the Australian Research Council, Google, Microsoft, Xerox, ByteDance, SEEK, NTT, and Fujitsu, and has been featured in MIT Tech Review, IEEE Spectrum, Reuters, CNN, The Times, and ABC News. He is the author of over 450 peer-reviewed publications across diverse topics in natural language processing and AI, with over 22,000 citations and an h-index of 70 (Google Scholar), in addition to being an ARC Future Fellow, ACL President in 2022, and the recipient of a number of awards at top conferences including AACL, ACL, EACL, EMNLP, and *SEM.