PhD students take part in research projects in various areas, working towards their degree. Adaeze Adigwe Sara AlbakryHuman-computer interaction, human factors of security and privacy Amirah AlshamraniQ&A platforms, information retrieval, privacy, anonymity Mousa Al Rawahi Mohamed BahgatKnowledge Representation, Question Answering, Deep Learning Anil BatraVideo and Language UnderstandingPersonal pageThomas BidewellMultimodal LLMs / Sports VideoPersonal pageZahra BokaeeNon Figurative Language, Hate Speech, LLMs for Farsi/Persian Colton BottaGenerative AI, LLMs, Educational Technology, Computer Science Education Rui Cai Agostina CalabreseCross-Domain Explainable Abuse DetectionPersonal pageSrravya ChandhiramowuliData annotation practices, human-computer interaction Sandrine ChaussonApplied NLP, Computational Social Science, Discourse Analysis (particularly moral discourse) Jianpeng Cheng Personal pageLiang Cheng Gustavo CillerueloGenerics and LLMs Henry ConklinInformation theory, interpretability, o.o.d. generalisationPersonal pageGautier DaganInteractive learning, multimodal learning and representation learningPersonal pageVerna DankersInterpretability, memorisation and figurative language processingPersonal pageSydelle de SouzaSemantic Compositionality, Language Acquisition, Analogical Reasoning Artemis Deligianni Cyndie DemeocqGenerative & Multimodal Models for Online Harms - Criminal Behaviors, Illegal Content & Child SafetyPersonal pageRadina DobrevaVision and Language Stephanie DroopBayesian causal modelling, social inference, theories of mechanistic explanation Xiaotang (Christina) DuLLM faithfulness, Retrieval-augmented generation, Reasoning Matus FalisDocument Classification, Medical NLPPersonal pageMahmoud FawziArabic Misinformation, Religious Misinformation, Religious Propaganda Adam FerronDigital authoritarianism; disinformaton; Political Islam; Comparative Poliics of the Middle East; state-society relations Sophie FischerMultimodal models, Conversational AgentsPersonal pageLauren FletcherLanguage evolution, developmental language disorders and cognitive modellingPersonal pageBilly FranksDigital commons, creative industries, human-computer interaction Farid GhaniHealth informatics, pharmacy information systems, technology adoption models Nina Gregorio Matt GrenanderNatural language understanding, discourse, coreference resolutionPersonal pageAndreas GrivasStructured prediction, Information extraction Shangmin Guo Akash GuptaMultimodality, Representation learning Alex Gurung Personal pageBálint GyevnárExplainable AI, Autonomous Vehicles, Conversational AgentsPersonal pageColeman HaleyMorphology and neurosymbolic computation; deep learning systems as cognitive modelsPersonal pageLucy HavensNatural language processing for bias detection, data visualization, digital humanities Jie He Giwon Hong Amanda HorzykAI Law and Regulation, Algorithmic TransparencyPersonal pageZeyu Huang Sarah ImmelLLMs and Creativity, Personal Data, Digital HumanitiesPersonal pageOsman InceMultimodal Learning, Generalization, EfficiencyPersonal pageVivek IyerMachine Translation, Multilingual LLMs, Multicultural NLPPersonal pageChentian JiangActive causal learning and transfer learning in both Personal pageParag Jain Personal pageHakan KaraMultimodal Learning, Visual Disinformation, Deepfake Detection, Computational Social Science Amr KelegArabic dialectology, Low resourced dialects Diane LacCommunity informatics, digital civics, human-computer interaction Sunnie Li Tianyi LiSemantic Parsing, Entailment Relations Yuanchao LiSpoken language processing, multimodal machine learning, affective computing, human-computer interaction, digital healthPersonal pageMatthias LindemannInduction of syntactic and semantic structure, parsing, groundingPersonal pageDanyang LiuData visualization, data physicalisation Oli LiuComputational modeling for language acquisitionPersonal PageJenny Long Nickil MaveliLLMs for code Kate McCurdy Personal pageNicole MengPrivacy and consent in relation to smart speakers Yen MengSpeech representation learning Johannah O'MahonyProsodic Modelling, context-aware synthesis, prosodic entrainment Mattia OpperEmbeddings, Structure Induction, Explainable AI Piotr NawrotModel Efficiency, Long Context Evaluation, Compression of Model's Latent StatePersonal pagePaul OwoichoConversational Agents, User Simulation, Natural Language UndrstandingPersonal pageKimberley ParadisCommunity-Based Research Methods in NLP / Intersectional, Queer and Decolonial DesignPersonal pageBrid-Aine ParnellNarratives and Communication in AI, AI Ethics and Regulation, Social Impact of AI and NLPPersonal pageJay ParkXAI, embodied NLU, Interactive Task LearningInteractive task learning, grounded semantics, explainable AI Argyrios Papoudakis Aryo Pradipta GemaHallucination Mitigation, Clinical NLP, LLM EvaluationPersonal pageKatarzyna PruśNatural language understanding, semantics of event descriptions Shiwen Qin Personal pageYifu Qiu Personal pageNeel RajaniMechanistic Interpretability / LLM training dynamicsPersonal pageGuillem RamirezEfficiency and co-ordination of LLMs Duncan ReidManaging Death in the Context of an Digital Society Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi Judy RobertsonEducational technology, computer science education, data literacy, AI literacyPersonal pageAmy RodgerGamification, Child-centred design, Behaviour change Alice RossExploring the impacts of speech and communication technology on diverse speakersPersonal pageJacqueline RoweLow-resource NLP / Multilingual safety and alignment of LLMsPersonal pageRimvydas RubaviciusComputational Semantics and Pragmatics, Interactive Task Learning Ariadna Sanchez Nicholas SandersSpeech synthesis; prosody modelling Irina SaparinaSemantic Parsing, Linguistic Variability and AmbiguityPersonal pageRohit Saxena Sarah SchöttlerInformation visualisation, geographic visualisationPersonal pageIgor Sterner Siqi SunSpeech Synthesis; Front-end TTS processing Ekaterina TaktashevaTool-Augmented Language Models, Conversational Agents, Natural Language Understanding Aida Tarighat Eddie L Ungless Simon ValentinCausal inference, active learning and probabilistic program inductionPersonal pageEmelie Van De VrekenSpeech Synthesis; Analysis and Modelling of Emotions in Speech Ivan VegnerAnalogical reasoning, few-shot generalizationPersonal pageRayo VerweijAI in the classroomPersonal pageVidminas VizgirdaHuman-Computer Interaction, Education, Information Seeking and Behaviour, Search, Metadata, Information Retrieval, Retrieval Augmented GenerationPersonal pagePauliina VuorinenInformatics and psychology, detailed tracking of recreational and academic e-reading behaviour, motivation, electronic experience Jonas WaldendorfData Augmentation, low-resource machine translation Sarenne WallbridgeLeverage information encoded in the audio channel of our speech to better understand the semantics of fluent (and disfluent) human communicationPersonal pageJinrui WangData visualization, visualization atlases, human-computer interaction Melody WangParticipatory design, care technologies, older adults, human-computer interaction Mengyu WangText-based financial prediction Weixuan WangMultilingual NLP, Interpretability, Neural Machine TranslationPersonal pageYi Wang Dan WellsSpeech synthesis for low-resource languagesPersonal pageHaili WuInternet of Things, environmental sustainability, human-computer interaction Gene-Ping YangSpeech representation learning, automatic speech recognition Sung-Lin YehSpeech representation learning, automatic speech recognition and speech segmentation Simon YuPost-training alignment, Safety, Large Language ModelPersonal pageYu ZhaoFoundation Model Pre-Training, Efficient Training/Inference, Mechanism InterpretabilityPersonal pageZheng ZhaoDiscourse analysis, Summarization Giulio ZhouProsody in Speech Translation Hao Zhou Hao ZhengSemantic Parsing, Compositional Generalization Wendy Zheng Jinzuomu ZhongAccent/Style Control for Speech Synthesis, Speech & Multimodal LLM This article was published on 2024-11-22
