Alumni

Our alumni have gone on to work in both academia and industry all over the world.

Older graduates

Fernando Pereira (Ph.D. 1982)Research director at Google.  Former chair of the Computer and Information Science department at University of Pennsylvania, head of the Machine Learning and Information Retrieval department at AT&T Labs, and research and management positions at SRI International.
Martha Palmer (Ph.D. 1985)Professor in the Computer Science Department, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Nick Haddock (Ph.D. 1988)Managing Director at Atomic Intelligence. Involved in product management, engineering management, and consulting in the areas of text analysis algorithms, natural language processing, search technology, unstructured data management, information extraction, machine learning, and user interface design.
Lesley Stirling (Ph.D. 1988)Associate Professor and Convenor, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne.
Robert Dale (Ph.D. 1989)Professor in the Department of Computing and Director of the Centre for Language Technology at Macquarie University, Sydney.  Editor of the journal Computational Linguistics. Chief Technology Officer at Arria NLG.
Bob Carpenter (Ph.D. 1989)Natural Language Scientist and Software Architect at Alias I, Inc., currently a research scientist in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University.
Patrick Blackburn (Ph.D. 1989)Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Science Studies at the University of Roskilde.
Nick Chater (Ph.D. 1989)Professor of Behavior Science, Business School, Warwick University.
Steven Bird (Ph.D. 1990)Professor, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Jo Calder (Ph.D. 1991)Partner at Managed-AIS, providing aeronautical information software and services.
Claire Gardent (Ph.D. 1991)CNRS Director of Research based in the  LORIA Computer Science research unit of Nancy, France.
Paul Taylor (Ph.D 1992)Former co-founder and CTO of Rhetorical Systems; founder and CEO of Phonetic Arts, a speech synthesis company recently acquired by Google.
Alan Black (Ph.D. 1993)Retired Associate Professor in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Co-developer of the freely available Festival speech synthesis system.
Paul Bagshaw (Ph.D. 1994)International coordinator of research in interface sciences at Orange Labs / France Telecom R&D.
David Beaver (Ph.D. 1995)Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Oliver Lemon (Ph.D. 1996)Professor at Heriot-Watt and  Chief AI Officer of Alana AI.
Karin Verspoor (Ph.D. 1997)Dean of Computing, RMIT University (Melbourne)
Renata Vieira (Ph.D. 1998)Professor in the Faculty of Informatics, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Matthew Aylett (Ph.D. 2000)Formerly with Rhetorical Systems, now Associate Professor at Heriot Watt
Jason Baldridge (Ph.D. 2002)
Research Scientist, Google
Julia Hockenmaier (Ph.D. 2003)Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
Caroline Sporleder (Ph.D. 2004)Professor at Universitat Trier
David Schlangen (Ph.D. 2004)
Professor at Universitat Potsdam
Colin Bannard (Ph.D. 2006)Senior Lecturer in Linguistics University of Manchester
Chris Callison-Burch (Ph.D. 2007)Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jochen Leidner (Ph.D. 2007)Research Director at Thompson-Reuters.
Michael Auli (Ph.D. 2012)Principal Research Scientist / Director at Meta / FAIR

2024

Amirah AlshamraniPrivacy in question-answering systems: managing online identity and posting behaviour on Quora . After graduation: Lecturer, King Saud University
Laurie Vear BurchellImproving natural language processing for under-served languages through increased training data diversity (supervisors: Kenneth Heafield and Alexandra Birch)
Ronald CardenasCognitive structures of content for controlled summarization (supervised by Shay Cohen). After graduation: Huawei London.
Marcio FonsecaControlling context factors in abstractive summarization of long documents (supervised by Shay Cohen). After graduation: Chamber of Deputies, Brazil
Seraphina Goldfarb-TarrantFairness in Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing (supervised by Adam Lopez and Bjorn Ross). After graduation: Head of Safety at Cohere
Rabia Yasa KostasAutomatic detection of clusters and switches in Turkish semantic verbal fluency data  (supervisors Maria Wolters and Sarah E. MacPherson). After graduation: Lecturer. Gumushane University, Turkey
Nikita MogheSegment-level evaluation of machine translation metrics (supervisor: Alexandra Birch)
Elizabeth Nielsen
Effects of prosody on natural language processing (supervised by Sharon Goldwater and Mark Steedman). After graduation: Google, Montreal

2023

Elaine FarrowModelling the Cognitive Quality of Student Contributions to Online Discussion Forums (supervised by Johanna Moore and Dragan Gaševiç)
Youssef Al-HaririSpiritual polarisation on social media: the case of Arab atheists on Twitter .(supervised by Walid Magdy and Maria Wolters). After graduation: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Adam JenkinsPatching, system administrators, and their communities (supervisors: Kami Vaniea and Maria Wolters). After graduation: Kings College London
Kate McCurdyRules, frequency, and predictability in morphological generalization: behavioral and computational evidence from the German plural system (supervised by Adam Lopez). After graduation: postdoc, Saarland University
Nick McKennaInference of natural language predicates in the open domain (supervised by Mark Steedman). After graduation: Microsoft Research, Cambridge

2022

Reinald Kim AmplayoOpinion Summarization of Multiple Reviews: Data Synthesis and Modeling (supervised by Mirella Lapata). After graduation: Google London 
Mattias Appelgren
Interactive Task Learning from Corrective Feedback (supervised by Alex Lascarides)
 

2021

Javad Hosseini                              Unsupervised Learning of Relational Entailment Graphs from Text (supervised by Mark Steedman and Shay Cohen). After graduation: Google Research, UK 
Bowen LiKnowledge-enhanced neural grammar Induction (supervised by Frank Keller). After graduation: DAMO Academy, Alibaba. 
Jiangming Liu            Understanding and Generating Language with Discourse Representation Structures (supervised by  Shay Cohen, Mirella Lapata and Alex Lascarides). After graduation: Researcher at Tencent 
Esma BalkirTensors and Tensor Decompositions for Combining External Information with Knowledge Graph Embeddings (supervised by Shay Cohen). After graduation: Researcher at National Research Council Canada. 
Chunchuan LyuGraph-Based Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsing (supervised by Ivan Titov). After graduation: postdoctoral researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal 
Naomi SaphraTraining Dynamics of Neural Language Models (supervised by Adam Lopez). After graduation: postdoctoral researcher at New York University 
Jonathan MallinsonUniversal Rewriting via Machine Translation (supervised by Mirella Lapata).  After graduation:  Google Zurich 
Abeer AlDayel
Stance Characterization and Detection on Social Media (supervised by Walid Magdy)
 
Mona Alqassim
Together for change: investigating a socio-technical system approach for supporting miscarriage (supervised by Maria Wolters)
 
Kholoud Althobaiti
Hunting phish: an exploration of the human-based detection and management of phishing attacks (supervised by Kami Vaniea; After graduation: Talif University, Saudi Arabia)
 
Mihaela Dragomir
Facilitating pretend play in children with autism through interactive, augmented narratives (supervised by Helen Pain)
 
Rafael Karampatsis
Scalable deep learning for bug detection (supervised by Charles Sutton)
 
Mohammad Tahaei
Developer factor in software privacy (supervised by Kami Vaniea; After graduation: postdoc at the University of Bristol)
 

2020

Toms Bergmanis Methods for Morphology Learning in low(er)-resource scenarios (supervised by Sharon Goldwater) After graduation: Researcher and Developer, Tilde MT 
Philippa ShoemarkDiscovering and analysing lexical variation in social media text (supervised by Sharon Goldwater and James Kirby). After graduation: Data Analyst, ING Belgium 
Nikos PapasarantopoulosMulti-view Representation Learning for NLP Applications (supervised by Shay Cohen). After graduation: Huawei-Edinburgh Centre 
Ondrej KlejchLearning to Adapt: Meta-Learning Approaches for Speaker Adaptation (supervised by Steve Renals and Peter Bell) 
Arlene Casey
LitCrit: exploring intentions as a basis for automated feedback on Related Work (supervised by Bonnie Webber)
 
Nicolas Collignon
Self-directed learning in new and changing environments: understanding human algorithms for exploration (supervised by Chris Lucas)
 
Joachim Fainberg
Robust learning of acoustic representations from diverse speech data (supervised by Steve Renals and Peter Bell)
 
Joanna Rownicka
Deep Representation Learning for Speech Recognition (supervised by Steve Renals)
 
Nora'Ayu Ahmad Uzir
Analytics of time management strategies in online learning environments: a novel methodological approach (supervised by Dragan Gasevic)
 
Pablo Leon Villagra
Representational principles of function generalization (supervised by Chris Lucas)
 

2019

Arabella SinclairModelling Speaker Adaptation in Second Language Learner Dialogue (supervised by Jon Oberlander and Adam Lopez). After graduation: postdoc at UVA.
Clara VaniaOn Understanding Character-level Models for Representing Morphology (supervised by Adam Lopez and Sharon Goldwater). After graduation: postdoc at NYU
Sameer BansalLow-Resource Speech Translation (supervised by Sharon Goldwater and Adam Lopez). After graduation: researcher at Bloomberg.
Marco DamonteUnderstanding and Generating Language with Abstract Meaning Representation (supervised by Shay Cohen and Adam Lopez). After graduation: researcher at Amazon.
John TorrWide-Coverage Statistical Parsing with Minimalist Grammars (supervised by Mark Steedman and Shay Cohen). After graduation: research scientist at Wluper.
Stefanos AngelidisWeakly Supervised Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Extraction (supervised by Mirella Lapata)
Nikolay BogoychevFast machine translation on parallel and massively parallel hardware (Supervised by Adam Lopez and Kenneth Heafield).  After graduation: postdoc at the University of Edinburgh.
Anna CurreyMoving Beyond Parallel Data for Neural Machine Translation (supervised by Kenneth Heafield). After graduation:  Amazon.
Mihai DobreLow-resource Learning in Complex Games (supervised by Alex Lascarides). After graduation: research scientist at FiveAI.
Li DongLearning Natural Language Interfaces with Neural Models (supervised by Mirella Lapata)  After graduation: Microsoft Research
Felipe Espic   In the Search of the Optimal Acoustic Features for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis (supervised by Simon King & Junichi Yamagishi). After graduation: Apple, UK
Sorcha GilroyProbablistic Graph Formalisms for Meaning Representations (supervised by Adam Lopez)
Craig InnesLearning to Make Decisions with Unforeseen Possibilities  (supervised by Alex Lascarides). After graduation:  Research Associate in School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Srikanth Ronanki Prosody Generation For Text-To-Speech Synthesis (supervised by Simon King & Steve Renals). After graduation: Amazon, UK
Jianpeng ChengThe life-cycle of semantic parsing (supervised by Mirella Lapata).  After graduation:  Apple
Daniel DumaContextual Citation Recommendation using Scientific Discourse Annotation Schemes (supervised by Ewan Klein)

 

  

 

  

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