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.

Emily Allaway	Reasoning, understanding implicit meaning, improving reasoning in real-world texts (dialogues, argumentation, text-based games)	Personal page
Benjamin Bach	Interactive data visualizations for networks and temporal data, storytelling, immersive analytics	Personal page
Peter Bell	Automatic speech recognition, speech technology for under-resourced languages, unsupervised training, sequence-to-sequence models	Personal page
Alexandra Birch	Multilingual NLP, Low-Resource NLP, Translation, Speech Analytics, NLP for Finance, Ethical and Trustworthy NLP	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
Tara Capel	Human-computer interaction, participatory design, interaction design, design methods, making and co-creation practices, in particular around: digital wellbeing, human-centred AI, generative AI, makerspaces, and civic and community engagement	Personal Page
Shay Cohen	Text generation, summarization, semantic and syntactic parsing, unsupervised learning, grammar learning, spectral learning.	Personal page
Aurora Constantin	Human-Computer Interaction, Education Technology, Assistive Technologies, Technology for Autism, (Distributed) Participatory Design, Digital Accessibility, Multimodal Interaction, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction	Personal page
Jeff Dalton	Text-based machine learning, Interactive Informational Retrieval, neuro-symbolic models, information extraction, conversational assistants	Personal page
TJ Elmas	Computational Social Science, Social Media Manipulation, Misinformation, Polarization, Applied NLP	Personal page
Kobi Gal	Artificial Intelligence, multi-agent systems, human-computer decision-making, educational data mining, AI in education, learning analytics, AI for Social Good	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	Machine translation speech translation	Personal page
Helen Hastie	Human-robot interaction, multimodal interaction, trustworthy interaction for autonomous systems, transparency and explanations through natural language, evaluation	Personal page
Robin Hill	Multimodal communication, visual cognition, eye tracking, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, human computer/robot interaction, gerontechnology and neuropolitics.	Personal Page
Uta Hinrichs	Data visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design. Special interest in digital humanities, visualizing cultural collections, visualization for public knowledge institutions, and visualization teaching and learning.	Personal page
Frank Keller	Natural language processing, language and vision, computational narrative	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
Nadin Kökciyan	AI for Privacy, Argument Mining, Computational Argumentation, AI Ethics, Multiagent systems, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning	Personal page
Catherine Lai	Speech prosody, discourse structure, affective computing, information extraction	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, discourse and dialogue processing, symbol grounding, communication with non-verbal actions, interactive task learning, human robot interaction.	Personal page
Susan Lechelt	Human-computer interaction, interaction design, responsible technology design, in particular around: sustainability and circular economy, data literacy, creativity, tangible and physical computing and children’s education	Personal page
John Lee	Multimodal dialogue, graphics in reasoning and learning, computing and cognition in design.	Personal page
Wenda Li	Machine learning for theorem proving, neuro-symbolic AI, formalising mathematics, formal verification	Personal page
Adam Lopez	Natural language processing, machine learning.	Personal page
Chris Lucas	Inductive learning, causal inference, cognitive development, Bayesian models.	Personal page
Tiejun Ma	Research focuses on risk analysis and decision-making using quantitative modelling and data techniques applied to FinTech, and Cyber-Risk research fields, via state-of-the-art information retrieval, sentiment analysis and computing techniques (e.g. risk quantification using NLP); modelling human's risk taking and decisions are influenced by sentiments, news and online information.
Walid Magdy	Information retrieval, Social computing, Social media, Data mining, Arabic NLP	Personal page
Fiona McNeill	Computing education and access to computing, especially for under-represented and disadvantaged groups; data matching and integration, especially during crisis management; language-aware matching and linguistic resources for minority languages, particularly Gaelic; Semantic Web, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs	Personal page
Pasquale Minervini	Natural language processing and machine learning: relational and graph machine learning, question and query answering, hybrid neuro-symbolic models, compositional generalisation, data-efficient and robust deep learning models.	Personal page
Brian Mitchell	Computer Science education, Human-Computer Interaction, accessibility, Language Engineering generally and Named Entity Classification especially, applying Machine Learning to Natural Language Processing, core corpus linguistics topics especially parsing	Personal page
Siddharth N.	Explainable AI, Interpretable ML, Structure learning, Probabilistic programming, Bayesian program learning, Approximate inference, Human-machine interaction, Neuro-symbolic systems	Personal page
Jeff Pan	Knowledge representation and artificial intelligence, knowledge based reasoning and learning, knowledge based natural language understanding and generation.	Personal page
Benjamin Peters	Biological and artificial visual perception and cognition, robust and efficient vision, real-world dynamic visual cognition, representational geometries, cognitive modelling, brain-computational modelling, biologically inspired AI (NeuroAI)	Personal page
Edoardo Ponti	Multilingual NLP; ML for language; language grounding; computational typology; few-shot learning; modular NNs.	Personal page
Korin Richmond	All aspects of text-to-speech synthesis and speech generation, acquisition and modelling of articulatory data for speech technologies, pronunciation modelling, lexicography, technologies for child speech therapy and pronunciation training.	Personal page
Judy Robertson		Personal page
Björn Ross	Computational social science; social computing; information systems; social media analytics and communication; social network analysis, agent-based modelling and simulation, natural language processing and text classification for social media.	Personal page
Paul Schweizer	Philosophical logic, the computational paradigm and conceptual foundations of cognitive science and AI, philosophy of mind and language.
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
Hao Tang	Speech and language processing, machine learning.	Personal page
Alex Taylor	Design justice, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), intersectional and feminist theory, multi-species relations, Participatory Design, Responsible AI, Science & Technology Studies (STS), and sociology of technology.	Personal page
Henry Thompson	Markup languages (XML, SGML) and architectures (Standoff markup, Schema languages, pipelines); Web Architecture; Philosophy of the Web.	Personal page
Ivan Titov	Statistical modeling for natural language understanding, syntactic and semantic parsing of natural language, machine learning for NLP, probabilistic models of graph-structured data, multilingual NLP	Personal page
John Vines	Human-computer interaction, interaction design, co-creation and participatory design, responsible technology design, digital social innovation, especially around: ageing and the lifecourse, personal and community finance, health and care, and civic and community action.	Personal page

EMERITUS MEMBERS

Photo	Member	Personal page
	Michael Fourman	Personal page
	Ewan Klein	Personal page
	Johanna Moore
	Helen Pain	Personal page
	Steve Renals	Steve Renals
	Bonnie Webber	Personal page

This article was published on 10 Sep, 2024