Supervised several PhD students to completion on various research topics in natural language processing, such as text-to-text generation, semantic parsing, and cross-lingual transfer.
Research Experience
Currently a professor in computer science at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, and a member of EdinburghNLP, the Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Edinburgh. Supervises multiple PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.
Background
Research interests include improving compositional generalization in deep learning models, enhancing cross-lingual transfer in multilingual language models, addressing limitations in understanding and generating long contexts, and creating verifiable systems. Current areas of interest include: (1) Agent-based frameworks for collaborative writing tasks; (2) Improving the representation of long context; (3) Parameter efficient approaches for LLM generalization to new tasks; (4) Language grounding.