Academic & senior research staff

These are the staff members who are primarily responsible for supervising PhD students and overseeing research projects in ILCC. Academic staff also have teaching responsibilities.

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Emily
Emily AllawayReasoning, understanding implicit meaning, improving reasoning in real-world texts (dialogues, argumentation, text-based games)Personal page
Benjamin BachInteractive data visualizations for networks and temporal data, storytelling, immersive analyticsPersonal page

Peter BellAutomatic speech recognition, speech technology for under-resourced languages, unsupervised training, sequence-to-sequence modelsPersonal page

Alexandra BirchMultilingual NLP, Low-Resource NLP, Translation, Speech Analytics, NLP for Finance, Ethical and Trustworthy NLPPersonal page
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Julian Bradfield
Julian BradfieldModal and temporal logics, model-checking, concurrency, independence logics, descriptive complexity and set theory, UML and modelling languages, natural language phonology.Personal page
Tara CapelHuman-computer interaction, participatory design, interaction design, design methods, making and co-creation practices, in particular around: digital wellbeing, human-centred AI, generative AI, makerspaces, and civic and community engagementPersonal Page
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Shay CohenText generation, summarization, semantic and syntactic parsing, unsupervised learning, grammar learning, spectral learning.Personal page
Aurora ConstantinHuman-Computer Interaction, Education Technology, Assistive Technologies, Technology for Autism, (Distributed) Participatory Design, Digital Accessibility, Multimodal Interaction, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer InteractionPersonal page
Jeff DaltonText-based machine learning, Interactive Informational Retrieval, neuro-symbolic models, information extraction, conversational assistantsPersonal page

TJ ElmasComputational Social Science, Social Media Manipulation, Misinformation, Polarization, Applied NLPPersonal page

Kobi GalArtificial Intelligence, multi-agent systems, human-computer decision-making, educational data mining, AI in education, learning analytics, AI for Social GoodPersonal page
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Sharon GoldwaterProbabilistic (esp. Bayesian) models of language acquisition, unsupervised learning for NLP, phonetics/phonology, morphology.Personal page
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Claire GroverText analytics (information extraction, text mining, bioinformatics), XML tools for text processing, text processing for cultural heritage, semantic web, methods and tools for corpus linguistics, computational linguistics (parsing, grammar engineering).Personal page
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Barry HaddowMachine translation speech translationPersonal page
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Helen Hastie
Helen HastieHuman-robot interaction, multimodal interaction, trustworthy interaction for autonomous systems, transparency and explanations through natural language, evaluationPersonal page
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Robin Hill Multimodal communication, visual cognition, eye tracking, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, human computer/robot interaction, gerontechnology and neuropolitics.Personal Page
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Uta Hinrichs
Uta HinrichsData visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design. Special interest in digital humanities, visualizing cultural collections, visualization for public knowledge institutions, and visualization teaching and learning.Personal page
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Frank KellerNatural language processing, language and vision, computational narrativePersonal page
Simon KingSpeech synthesis; new acoustic models for speech recognition; the use of articulatory information for speech recognition and synthesis; phonological/acoustic/articulatory features for speech processing.Personal page
Nadin KökciyanAI for Privacy, Argument Mining, Computational Argumentation, AI Ethics, Multiagent systems, Knowledge Representation and ReasoningPersonal page
Catherine LaiSpeech prosody, discourse structure, affective computing, information extractionPersonal page
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Mirella LapataProbabilistic learning for natural language understanding and generation, language grounding, models of vision and language.Personal page
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Alex LascaridesComputational semantics, discourse and dialogue processing, symbol grounding, communication with non-verbal actions, interactive task learning, human robot interaction.Personal page
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Susan Lechelt
Susan Lechelt
Human-computer interaction, interaction design, responsible technology design, in particular around: sustainability and circular economy, data literacy, creativity, tangible and physical computing and children’s education
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John LeeMultimodal dialogue, graphics in reasoning and learning, computing and cognition in design.Personal page
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Wenda Li
Wenda LiMachine learning for theorem proving, neuro-symbolic AI, formalising mathematics, formal verificationPersonal page
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Adam LopezNatural language processing, machine learning.Personal page
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Chris LucasInductive learning, causal inference, cognitive development, Bayesian models.Personal page
Tiejun MaResearch focuses on risk analysis and decision-making using quantitative modelling and data techniques applied to FinTech, and Cyber-Risk research fields, via state-of-the-art information retrieval, sentiment analysis and computing techniques (e.g. risk quantification using NLP); modelling human's risk taking and decisions are influenced by sentiments, news and online information. 
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Walid Magdy
Walid MagdyInformation retrieval, Social computing, Social media, Data mining, Arabic NLPPersonal page
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Fiona
Fiona McNeillComputing education and access to computing, especially for under-represented and disadvantaged groups; data matching and integration, especially during crisis management; language-aware matching and linguistic resources for minority languages, particularly Gaelic; Semantic Web, Linked Data and Knowledge GraphsPersonal page
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Pasquale Minervini
Pasquale MinerviniNatural language processing and machine learning: relational and graph machine learning, question and query answering, hybrid neuro-symbolic models, compositional generalisation, data-efficient and robust deep learning models.Personal page
 

Brian Mitchell

 

Computer Science education, Human-Computer Interaction, accessibility, Language Engineering generally and Named Entity Classification especially, applying Machine Learning to Natural Language Processing, core corpus linguistics topics especially parsingPersonal page
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Siddharth N.Explainable AI, Interpretable ML, Structure learning, Probabilistic programming, Bayesian program learning, Approximate inference, Human-machine interaction, Neuro-symbolic systemsPersonal page
Jeff PanKnowledge representation and artificial intelligence, knowledge based reasoning and learning, knowledge based natural language understanding and generation.Personal page
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Benjamin Peters
Benjamin Peters Biological and artificial visual perception and cognition, robust and efficient vision, real-world dynamic visual cognition, representational geometries, cognitive modelling, brain-computational modelling, biologically inspired AI (NeuroAI)Personal page
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Edoardo Ponti
Edoardo PontiMultilingual NLP; ML for language; language grounding; computational typology; few-shot learning; modular NNs.Personal page
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Korin
Korin Richmond All aspects of text-to-speech synthesis and speech generation, acquisition and modelling of articulatory data for speech technologies, pronunciation modelling, lexicography, technologies for child speech therapy and pronunciation training.Personal page
Judy Robertson Personal page
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Bjorn Ross
Björn RossComputational social science; social computing; information systems; social media analytics and communication; social network analysis, agent-based modelling and simulation, natural language processing and text classification for social media.Personal page
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Paul SchweizerPhilosophical logic, the computational paradigm and conceptual foundations of cognitive science and AI, philosophy of mind and language. 
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Hiroshi ShimodairaTrainable lifelike conversational agents, Acoustic models for automatic speech recognition, Handwriting recognition.Personal page
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Mark SteedmanComputational linguistics, artificial intelligence, formal grammar, spoken intonation, statistical parsing, spoken language processing, animated conversational agents, computational musical analysis.Personal page
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Zee Talat
Zee Talat

Content moderation; hate speech detection; responsible NLP, machine learning, and AI; politics of machine learning

 

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Hao Tang
Hao TangSpeech and language processing, machine learning.Personal page
Alex TaylorDesign justice, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), intersectional and feminist theory, multi-species relations, Participatory Design, Responsible AI, Science & Technology Studies (STS), and sociology of technology.Personal page
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Henry ThompsonMarkup languages (XML, SGML) and architectures (Standoff markup, Schema languages, pipelines); Web Architecture; Philosophy of the Web.Personal page
Ivan TitovStatistical modeling for natural language understanding,  syntactic and semantic parsing of natural language,  machine learning for NLP, probabilistic models of graph-structured data, multilingual NLPPersonal page
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John Vines
John Vines

Human-computer interaction, interaction design, co-creation and participatory design, responsible technology design, digital social innovation, especially around: ageing and the lifecourse, personal and community finance, health and care, and civic and community action.

 

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EMERITUS MEMBERS

 

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Michael FourmanPersonal page  
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Klein
Ewan KleinPersonal page  
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Johanna Moore                  
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Helen PainPersonal page  
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Steve RenalsSteve Renals  
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Bonnie WebberPersonal page