Cohort 2020

Anil Batra

Research Interests: Multi-modal AI/LLMs, conditional text generation, ego/exo-centric video understanding, diffusion models

Research Topic: Instructional Video Understanding

Supervisors: Frank Keller, Laura Sevilla

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Agostina Calabrese

Research Interests: Policy-aware explainable abuse detection

Research Topic: Policy-aware explainable abuse detection 

Supervisors: Björn Ross, Mirella Lapata

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Verna Dankers

Thesis being defended: Memorisation meets compositionality in natural language processing

Supervisors:  Ivan Titov, Chris Lucas

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Radina Dobreva

Research Interests: Multi-domain neural machine translation and domain generalisation

Research Topic: Exploring Movie Audio Description through the Lens of Video Semantic Role Labelling

Supervisors: Lexi Birch, Frank Keller

Lauren Fletcher

Thesis being defended: Neurodiversity and language evolution: an experimental exploration of autistic individuals, language learning, use, and change

Supervisors: Jenny Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati

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Shawn Guo

Research 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 methods

Research Topic: Cultural Evolution in the Age of Generative AI: Language as a Case Study

Supervisors: Kenny Smith, Stefano Albrecht

Danyang Liu

Research Interests: Natural language generation, especially variational auto-encoder and multi-modal language understanding

Research Topic: Grounded Visual Story Telling

Supervisors: Frank Keller, Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titov

Wanqiu Long

Thesis defended: Enhancing Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition by Exploiting Label Inter-relations

Supervisors: Bonnie Webber, Siddharth Narayanaswamy

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Atli Sigurgeirsson

Research Interests: Understanding and controlling prosody and style in end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis

Research Topic: Interpretation of TTS models from a Controllability Perspective

Supervisors: Simon King, Sharon Goldwater

Siqi Sun

Thesis defended: Sequence-to-Sequence Linguistic Frontend Modelling for Text-to-Speech and Its Improvement

Supervisors: Korin Richmond, Hao Tang

Eddie Ungless

Thesis defended: Oh, the humanity! A human-centric approach to social bias research in NLP

Supervisors:  Björn Ross, Vaishak Belle, Zachary Horne

Zheng Zhao

Research Interests: Explores how large language models learn, adapt, and represent information across domains, languages, and tasks

Research Topic: Understanding Learning and Representation in Large Language Models

Supervisors: Shay Cohen, Bonnie Webber

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