Academic & senior research staff

These are the staff members who are primarily responsible for supervising PhD students and overseeing research projects in ILCC. Academic staff also have teaching responsibilities.

Member		Interests	Personal page
	Jon Oberlander	Director of Institute. Discourse generation, embodied multimodal interaction, human-robot dialogue, individual differences, social media.	Personal page
	Matthew Aylett	Characterful speech synthesis, personification and narrative.	Personal page
	Julian Bradfield	Modal and temporal logics, model-checking, concurrency, independence logics, descriptive complexity and set theory, UML and modelling languages, natural language phonology.	Personal page
	Shay Cohen	Natural language parsing and machine learning, grammar learning, spectral learning.	Personal page
	Michael Fourman	Formal models of digital systems, system-design tools, proof assistants, categorical semantics, propositional planning.	Personal page
	Dragan Gasevic	Learning analytics, learning technologies, Self-regulated and social learning, learning design, higher education policy, computational social science, language technologies	Personal page
	Sharon Goldwater	Probabilistic (esp. Bayesian) models of language acquisition, unsupervised learning for NLP, phonetics/phonology, morphology.	Personal page
	Claire Grover	Text analytics (information extraction, text mining, bioinformatics), XML tools for text processing, text processing for cultural heritage, semantic web, methods and tools for corpus linguistics, computational linguistics (parsing, grammar engineering).	Personal page
	Barry Haddow	Statistical machine translation	Personal page
	Kenneth Heafield	Machine translation, language models, efficient algorithms, and distributed systems	Personal page
	Robin Hill	Multimodal communication, visual cognition, eye tracking, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, human computer/robot interaction, gerontechnology and neuropolitics.	Personal Page
	Frank Keller	Probabilistic models of cognition, parsing, language production, language acquisition, language-vision interface, eyetracking.	Personal page
	Simon King	Speech synthesis; new acoustic models for speech recognition; the use of articulatory information for speech recognition and synthesis; phonological/acoustic/articulatory features for speech processing.	Personal page
	Ewan Klein	Computational approaches to natural language semantics, syntax, prosody and phonology; spoken language processing; communicating with mobile robots and embodied devices; the Semantic Web and ontologies.	Personal page
	Philipp Koehn	Statistical machine translation, machine learning methods to natural language texts, large-scale text processing.	Personal page
	Mirella Lapata	Probabilistic learning for natural language understanding and generation, language grounding, models of vision and language.	Personal page
	Alex Lascarides	Computational semantics and pragmatics, probabilistic modelling of semantics, discourse and dialogue processing, communication with non-verbal actions, models of action and decision making.	Personal page
	John Lee	Multimodal dialogue, graphics in reasoning and learning, computing and cognition in design.	Personal page
	Adam Lopez	Multilingual NLP, formal language theory, machine learning, and algorithms.	Personal page
	Chris Lucas	Inductive learning, causal inference, cognitive development, Bayesian models.	Personal page
	Walid Magdy	Information retrieval, Social computing, Social media, Data mining, Arabic NLP	Personal page
	Johanna Moore	Computational linguistics (natural language generation, dialogue, and discourse), intelligent systems for education, personalised information presentation, multi-modal interaction, user modeling, knowledge representation.	Personal page
	Helen Pain	Intelligent educational and assistive technology, supporting learners with complex communication needs, participatory design, embodied multi-modal interaction,  student modelling.	Personal page
	Steve Renals	Speech recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal interaction, multiparty interaction, machine learning.	Personal page
	Paul Schweizer	Philosophical logic, the computational paradigm and conceptual foundations of cognitive science and AI, philosophy of mind and language.
	Richard Shillcock	Reading, cognitive modelling, language representation and processing, theory of modelling.	Personal page
	Hiroshi Shimodaira	Trainable lifelike conversational agents, Acoustic models for automatic speech recognition, Handwriting recognition.	Personal page
	Mark Steedman	Computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, formal grammar, spoken intonation, statistical parsing, spoken language processing, animated conversational agents, computational musical analysis.	Personal page
	Charles Sutton	Machine learning for natural language, structured prediction, graphical modelling, information extraction, probabilistic models of programming languages.	Personal page
	Henry Thompson	Markup languages (XML, SGML) and architectures (Standoff markup, Schema languages, pipelines); Web Architecture; Philosophy of the Web.	Personal page
	Kami Vaniea	Human Computer Interaction, Security, Privacy.	Personal page
	Bonnie Webber	Discourse structure and its applications, question answering, biomedical informatics, domain adaptation.	Personal page
	Maria Wolters	eHealth for people with long term conditions, human-computer  interaction, assistive technology	Personal page
	Junichi Yamagishi	Spoken language processing, recognition and synthesis.	Personal page