His research team is supported by grants from ERC, EPSRC, ESRC, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Huawei, Cambridge Language Sciences, DARPA, Imminent, and the Alan Turing Institute.
Research Experience
Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, working at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. He has been a postdoc at the Machine Reading group at UCL with Sebastian Riedel, at the NLIP group at the University of Cambridge with Stephen Clark, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Mark Craven.
Education
PhD from the University of Cambridge, supervised by Ted Briscoe and Zoubin Ghahramani.
Background
Professor of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, and a Dinesh Dhamija fellow of Fitzwilliam College. Current projects include dialogue modelling, automated fact-checking, and imitation learning. He has also worked on semantic parsing, natural language generation and summarization, language modelling, information extraction, active learning, clustering, and biomedical text mining.