PhD students take part in research projects in various areas, working towards their degree. Adaeze Adigwe Sara Albakry Human-computer interaction, human factors of security and privacy Amirah Alshamrani Q&A platforms, information retrieval, privacy, anonymity Mousa Al Rawahi Mohamed Bahgat Knowledge Representation, Question Answering, Deep Learning Anil Batra Video and Language Understanding Personal page Thomas Bidewell Multimodal LLMs / Sports Video Personal page Zahra Bokaee Rui Cai Agostina Calabrese Cross-Domain Explainable Abuse Detection Personal page Srravya Chandhiramowuli Data annotation practices, human-computer interaction Sandrine Chausson Applied NLP, Computational Social Science, Discourse Analysis (particularly moral discourse) Jianpeng Cheng Personal page Liang Cheng Gustavo Cilleruelo Henry Conklin Information theory, interpretability, o.o.d. generalisation Personal page Gautier Dagan Interactive learning, multimodal learning and representation learning Personal page Verna Dankers Interpretability, memorisation and figurative language processing Personal page Sydelle de Souza Semantic Compositionality, Language Acquisition, Analogical Reasoning Artemis Deligianni Cyndie Demeocq Generative & Multimodal Models for Online Harms - Criminal Behaviors, Illegal Content & Child Safety Radina Dobreva Vision and Language Stephanie Droop Bayesian causal modelling, social inference, theories of mechanistic explanation Xiaotang (Christina) Du Matus Falis Document Classification, Medical NLP Personal page Sophie Fischer Multimodal models, Conversational Agents Personal page Lauren Fletcher Language evolution, developmental language disorders and cognitive modelling Personal page Billy Franks Digital commons, creative industries, human-computer interaction Farid Ghani Health informatics, pharmacy information systems, technology adoption models Nina Gregorio Matt Grenander Natural language understanding, discourse, coreference resolution Personal page Andreas Grivas Structured prediction, Information extraction Shangmin Guo Alex Gurung Personal page Bálint Gyevnár Explainable AI, Autonomous Vehicles, Conversational Agents Personal page Coleman Haley Morphology and neurosymbolic computation; deep learning systems as cognitive models Personal page Lucy Havens Natural language processing for bias detection, data visualization, digital humanities Jie He Giwon Hong Amanda Horzyk AI Law and Regulation, Algorithmic Transparency Personal page Zeyu Huang Sarah Immel LLMs and Creativity, Personal Data, Digital Humanities Personal page Osman Ince Multimodal Learning, Generalization, Efficiency Personal page Vivek Iyer Machine Translation, Multilingual LLMs, Multicultural NLP Personal page Chentian Jiang Active causal learning and transfer learning in both Personal page Parag Jain Personal page Amr Keleg Arabic dialectology, Low resourced dialects Diane Lac Community informatics, digital civics, human-computer interaction Sunnie Li Tianyi Li Semantic Parsing, Entailment Relations Yuanchao Li Spoken language processing, multimodal machine learning, affective computing, human-computer interaction, digital health Personal page Matthias Lindemann Induction of syntactic and semantic structure, parsing, grounding Personal page Danyang Liu Data visualization, data physicalisation Oli Liu Computational modeling for language acquisition Personal Page Jenny Long Data visualization, data physicalisation Nickil Maveli Kate McCurdy Personal page Nicole Meng Privacy and consent in relation to smart speakers Vid Mikucionis Natural language processing, data mining, document search, and knowledge graphs. Minor: game research, software bots, simulations, and educational games. Personal page Johannah O'Mahony Prosodic Modelling, context-aware synthesis, prosodic entrainment Mattia Opper Embeddings, Structure Induction, Explainable AI Piotr Nawrot Model Efficiency, Long Context Evaluation, Compression of Model's Latent State Personal page Paul Owoicho Conversational Agents, User Simulation, Natural Language Undrstanding Personal page Proyag Pal Low-resource machine translation, multilingual models Personal page Kimberley Paradis Community-Based Research Methods in NLP / Intersectional, Queer and Decolonial Design Personal page Brid-Aine Parnell Narratives and Communication in AI, AI Ethics and Regulation, Social Impact of AI and NLP Personal page Jay Park XAI, embodied NLU, Interactive Task LearningInteractive task learning, grounded semantics, explainable AI Argyrios Papoudakis Aryo Pradipta Gema Queer NLP / Inclusive Design Personal page Katarzyna Pruś Natural language understanding, semantics of event descriptions Shiwen Qin Personal page Yifu Qiu Personal page Neel Rajani Mechanistic Interpretability / LLM training dynamics Personal page Guillem Ramirez Duncan Reid Managing Death in the Context of an Digital Society Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi Judy Robertson Educational technology, computer science education, data literacy, AI literacy Personal page Amy Rodger Gamification, Child-centred design, Behaviour change Alice Ross Personal page Jacqueline Rowe Low-resource NLP / Multilingual safety and alignment of LLMs Rimvydas Rubavicius Computational Semantics and Pragmatics, Interactive Task Learning Ariadna Sanchez Nicholas Sanders Speech synthesis; prosody modelling Irina Saparina Semantic Parsing, Linguistic Variability and Ambiguity Personal page Rohit Saxena Sarah Schöttler Information visualisation, geographic visualisation Personal page Siqi Sun Speech Synthesis; Front-end TTS processing Chenmien Tan Ekaterina Taktasheva Tool-Augmented Language Models, Conversational Agents, Natural Language Understanding Aida Tarighat Eddie L Ungless Simon Valentin Causal inference, active learning and probabilistic program induction Personal page Emelie Van De Vreken Speech Synthesis; Analysis and Modelling of Emotions in Speech Ivan Vegner Analogical reasoning, few-shot generalization Personal page Rayo Verweij AI in the classroom Personal page Pauliina Vuorinen Informatics and psychology, detailed tracking of recreational and academic e-reading behaviour, motivation, electronic experience Jonas Waldendorf Data Augmentation, low-resource machine translation Sarenne Wallbridge Leverage information encoded in the audio channel of our speech to better understand the semantics of fluent (and disfluent) human communication Personal page Jinrui Wang Data visualization, visualization atlases, human-computer interaction Melody Wang Participatory design, care technologies, older adults, human-computer interaction Mengyu Wang Text-based financial prediction Weixuan Wang Multilingual NLP, Interpretability, Neural Machine Translation Personal page Yi Wang Dan Wells Speech synthesis for low-resource languages Personal page Haili Wu Internet of Things, environmental sustainability, human-computer interaction Gene-Ping Yang Speech representation learning, automatic speech recognition Sung-Lin Yeh Speech representation learning, automatic speech recognition Simon Yu Personal page Yu Zhao Personal page Zheng Zhao Discourse analysis, Summarization Giulio Zhou Hao Zhou Hao Zheng Semantic Parsing, Compositional Generalization Wendy Zheng Jinzuomu Zhong Accent/Style Control for Speech Synthesis, Speech & Multimodal LLM This article was published on 2024-11-22