Core Faculty
Nedjma Ousidhoum
Lecturer
NLP for Low Resource Languages, Automated Fact-checking, Toxic Content Detection in NLP
Jose Camacho-Collados
Professor & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Lexical Semantics, Multilinguality, Social Media, Embeddings
Steven Schockaert
Professor
Commonsense Reasoning, Conceptual Spaces, Representation Learning, Lexical Semantics
Luis Espinosa-Anke
Senior Lecturer
Lexical Semantics, Multiilnguality, User-Facing NLP, Social Media Analysis
Fernando Alva-Manchego
Senior Lecturer
Text Adaptation, Evaluation of Text Generation, NLP for Education
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
Senior Lecturer
Lexical Semantics, Interpretability
Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto
Senior Lecturer
Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge-aware NLP, Representation Learning, Commonsense Reasoning
Carla Pérez-Almendros
Lecturer
Text Classification, Bias Detection, Ethics in NLP
Yi Zhou (Jodie)
Lecturer
Fairness, Bias and Ethics in Language Models, Interpretability, Lexical Semantics
Associated Faculty
Alun Preece
Professor & Co-Director Crime and Security Research Institute
Neuro-Symbolic Approaches, Disinformation Analytics, Human-Machine Collaboration
Diana Contreras Mojica
Lecturer in Geospatial Sciences
Geographical information Sciences, Disaster management, Human-Machine Collaboration
Christian Arnold
Senior Lecturer
Intersection between social science and computer science
Federico Liberatore
Lecturer
Applications of NLP, Operational Research, Combinatorial Optimization, Data Science, Disasters Management
Crispin Cooper
Senior Lecturer
Alignment, Social/economic/political modelling, Sustainability, Transport
Hiroyuki Kido
Lecturer
Causal Inference, Explainable AI, Bayesian Statistics
Nitesh Kumar
Lecturer
Explainability, Fine-tuning and Domain Adaptation of LLMs, Probabilistic Logic, Causal Reasoning, Agentic AI
Usashi Chatterjee
Lecturer
Ontology Development, Metadata and Semantic Interoperabilit, Knowledge Reuse (Application in Food and Agriculture)
Research Staff
Aleks Edwards
Postdoc
Text Classification, Lexical Semantics, Information Extraction
Zara Siddique
Research Associate
Intersectionality in NLP, Ethical AI, Bias Detection
PhD Students
Kiamehr Rezaee
PhD Student
Lexical Semantics, Interpretability, Social Media
David Owen
PhD Student & Data Engineer CUBRIC
Language Models, Text Representation, Information Retrieval, Applications in Healthcare (esp. mental health)
Abdullah Alshatti
PhD Student
Text Simplification
Abdullah Barayan
PhD Student
Text Adaptation, Information Accessibility, Text Augmentation, Applications in Education
Abigail Davies
PhD Student
NLP in Social care, working with SCALE, predictive AI modelling
Amir Masoud Nourollah
PhD Student
Machine Learning Force Fields, Representation Learning, Multimodal ML
Gerald Alimon
PhD Student
Machine Learning in Diagnostic Imaging and Radiomics, Agentic AI in Healthcare, Geospatial modelling of public-sector data
Israa Alghanmi
PhD Student
Language Models, Multilinguality, Applications in Social Media and Healthcare
Jingxuan Chen
PhD Student
LLM-based Agents
Matthew Powell
PhD Student
Neuro-Symbolic AI, Disinformation, Explainable AI
Mirari San Martín Lacunza
PhD Student (Visiting)
Spanish web accessibility, Easy-Reading, Spanish Sign Language
Nurul Ariyani
PhD Student
Information Extraction, Knowledge Representation, Language Models
Ovidia Martínez Sánchez
PhD Student (Visiting)
Computational linguistics, clinical NLP, corpus linguistics, medical terminology, plain language and text reformulation
Xingyu (Nancy) Wang
PhD Student
Cultural Bias in Language Models, Interpretability, Lexical Semantics, Multilinguality
Yuefeng Shi
PhD Student
LLMs for Online Discourse, Applications in Social Media and Healthcare
Former Members
Dimosthenis Antypas
PhD Student & Teaching Associate
Disinformation Detection, Information Extraction
Asahi Ushio
PhD Student
Language Model Understanding, Relational Knowledge Mining, Information Retrieval, Textual Data Augmentation
Daniel Loureiro
Postdoc
Distributional Semantics, Common-sense Reasoning
Hélène de Ribaupierre
Lecturer
Web Semantic, Information Extraction, Semantic Publishing, HCI, Gender and Diversity Bias
Joanne Boisson
Postdoc
Distributional Semantics, Relation Extraction, Metaphor Identification, Chinese Language Processing
Mark Anderson
Postdoc
Relational Knowledge, Commonsense, Syntax, Graphs
Amit Gajbhiye
Postdoc
Commonsense Reasoning, Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Inference
Hsuvas Borkakoty
PhD Student
Multilingual and Low-Resource NLP, Semantic Representations, Text Summarisation, NLP with Deep Learning
Irtaza (Taz) Khalid
Postdoc
Reinforcement Learning, Representation and Graph Learning, AI Controllability and Planning