Cohort 2021

Sandrine Chausson

Research Interests: Analysing the role of discourse in the formation, distribution and adoption of ideas using NLP, with applications for Social Sciences, History of Ideas and Moral Philosophy; special interest in the Climate Change discourse and Identity Politics

Research Topic: Networked Mythologies: Political sense-making across Twitter communities

Supervisors: Björn Ross, Nadin Kokciyan

Steph Droop

Thesis being defended: Toward a unified account of singular causal explanation under uncertainty

Supervisors: Neil Bramley, Chris Lucas

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Nick Ferguson

Thesis being defended: Meta-Level Reasoning in the Era of Large Language Models

Supervisors: Kobby Nuamah, Alan Bundy, Mark Steedman, Liane Guillou

Wenyu Huang

Thesis being defended: From Passage Retrieval to Agentic Search: Designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Model

Supervisors: Jeff Pan, Ivan Titov

Oli Liu

Research Interests: Cognitive modeling with and interpretability for models of speech and language

Research Topic: Understanding representations in self-supervised learning models of speech

Supervisors: Sharon Goldwater, Hao Tang

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Nicholas Sanders

Thesis defended: Learning Expressive Representations for Speech Generation

Supervisors: Simon King, Korin Richmond

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Jonas Waldendorf

Thesis being defended: Failure Modes in Neural Machine Translation: Rare Vocabulary, Hallucinations, and Domain Drift

Supervisors:  Lexi Birch, Barry Haddow

Mengyu Wang

Thesis being defended: Learning from Market Data and Financial Text for Financial Analysis

Supervisors: Tiejun Ma, Shay Cohen

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