Cohort 2022

Sydelle De Souza

Research Interests: Computational cognitive models of language processing. Specifically, analogical processes in the acquisition of semi-compositional verb-argument structures. Also, systematicity in biological and artificial systems

Research Topic: On the Edge of Productivity: Investigating the Acquisition, Processing, & Emergence of Semi-Productive Verb-Argument Structures

Supervisors: Jenny Culbertson, Frank Mollica

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Christina Du

Research Interests: hallucination mitigation, reasoning, interpretability, knowledge mechanism

Research Topic: Self-Guided Improvement for Faithful and Factual Reasoning with LLMs

Supervisors: Pasquale Minervini, Ivan Titov, Emily Allaway

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Ella Markham

Research Interests: Semantics/pragmatics acquisition, Computational modelling of language acquisition

Research Topic: An Incremental Program Induction Model of Slow Mapping Words to Meanings

Supervisors: Hugh Rabagliati, Neil Bramley

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Nickil Maveli

Research Interests: LLMs for code understanding and generation, code semantics, benchmarking and evaluation for code

Research Topic: The limitations and capabilities of large language models in coding

Supervisors: Shay Cohen, Antonio Vergari

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Sean Memery

Research Interests: 3D scene generation from textual descriptions and physics-informed networks

Research Topic: Reasoning about Complex Physical Systems in Natural Language

Supervisors: Kartic Subr, Mirella Lapata

Piotr Nawrot

Thesis being defended: Adaptive Resource Allocation in Transformers: Learned Memory Compression and Latent Tokenization

Supervisors: Edo Ponti, Ivan Titov

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Opeyemi Osakuade

Research Interests:  Deep learning for speech synthesis, speech recognition, and natural language understanding

Research Topic: Towards Efficient Tone-Aware Discrete Speech Representations

Supervisors: Simon King, Korin Richmond

Argyrios Papoudakis

Research Interests: Long-context reasoning and modelling, text-generation, multi-modal learning (language and vision)

Research Topic:Character Understanding in Long-form Stories with Guided Reasoning

Supervisors:  Frank Keller, Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titov

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Guillem Ramirez Santos

Research Interests: privacy-preserving machine learning, optimisation of API calls to LLMs

Research Topic: Towards Private and Decentralized Large Language Model Processing

Supervisors: Ivan Titov, Lexi Birch

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Ivan Vegner

Research Interests:  Neuro-symbolic learning of logical predicate structures, few-shot and zero-shot learning, out-of-domain generalization

Research Topic: Computational roadblocks to analogy

Supervisors: Alex Doumas, Siddharth Narayanaswamy

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Danna Zheng

Research Interests: methods for evaluating the robustness of natural language generation tasks, along with analyzing large language model ability across different contexts

Research Topic: Reliable Reasoning in Knowledge-Intensive Language Model Systems

Supervisors: Jeff Pan, Mirella Lapata

Giulio Zhou

Research Interests: Machine Translation and Natural Language Generation/Understanding. Specifically, deep learning applications in NLP with focus on linguistically-informed and low-resourced systems

Research Topic: The Prosody of Emojis: Visual Surrogates for Acoustic Information in Text and Speech Processing

Supervisors:  Lexi Birch, Catherine Lai, Barry Haddow