Laurie is a technologist, linguist and researcher based in Edinburgh, UK. They are especially interested in using data-driven approaches to make language technologies as multilingual as possible.

Before joining Common Crawl, Laurie's research focused on fast, high-coverage language identification and its part in creating reliable multilingual corpora. They believe strongly in open research and are a key contributor to several open-source projects such as the Open Language Data Initiative and HPLT.

Laurie holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing, an MSc in Economics and an MA (Cantab) in Middle Eastern Studies.