Meet the current programme doctoral researchers who started in 2020 Anil BatraThesis being defended: Generating and Understanding Temporally Grounded Instructions in Procedural VideosSupervisors: Frank Keller, Laura SevillaSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Agostina CalabreseThesis being defended: Reframing Content Moderation: Guideline-Driven and Explainable Hate Speech DetectionSupervisors: Björn Ross, Mirella LapataSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Verna DankersThesis defended: Memorisation meets compositionality in natural language processingSupervisors: Ivan Titov, Chris LucasSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Radina DobrevaResearch Interests: Multi-domain neural machine translation and domain generalisationResearch Topic: Exploring Movie Audio Description through the Lens of Video Semantic Role LabellingSupervisors: Lexi Birch, Frank Keller Lauren FletcherThesis defended: Neurodiversity and language evolution: an experimental exploration of autistic individuals, language learning, use, and changeSupervisors: Jenny Culbertson, Hugh RabagliatiSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Shawn GuoResearch Interests: Exploring how emergent languages from multi-agent systems could help to transfer knowledge across different environments, with the help from deep reinforcement learning and iterated learning methodsResearch Topic: Cultural Evolution in the Age of Generative AI: Language as a Case StudySupervisors: Kenny Smith, Stefano Albrecht Danyang LiuResearch Interests: Natural language generation, especially variational auto-encoder and multi-modal language understandingResearch Topic: Grounded Visual Story TellingSupervisors: Frank Keller, Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titov Wanqiu LongThesis defended: Enhancing Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition by Exploiting Label Inter-relationsSupervisors: Bonnie Webber, Siddharth NarayanaswamySocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Atli SigurgeirssonThesis being defended: Control Strategies for Expressive Text-To-SpeechSupervisors: Simon King, Sharon Goldwater Eddie UnglessThesis defended: Oh, the humanity! A human-centric approach to social bias research in NLPSupervisors: Björn Ross, Vaishak Belle, Zachary Horne Zheng ZhaoResearch Interests: Explores how large language models learn, adapt, and represent information across domains, languages, and tasksResearch Topic: Understanding Learning and Representation in Large Language ModelsSupervisors: Shay Cohen, Bonnie WebberSocials: LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal Website Alumni - Graduates of our Programme This article was published on 2024-12-08