PhD students

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  
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  
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
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
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  
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    
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  
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
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  
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