Machine Reading

Sebastian Riedel Reader

Sebastian works in NLP and Machine Learning. He is particularly interested in helping machines to read more accurately by leveraging knowledge gathered through reading more accurately.

Matko Bošnjak Final year PhD Student

Matko's interests include both natural and unnatural language processing, and their interplay. Specifically, he's enjoying differentiable abstract machines and interpreters, code induction, and trainable combinations of neural networks and code. When tired from unnatural language, he can be found enjoying a good question answering model.

Ingolf Becker 3rd year PhD Student

Ingolf researches into the intersection of NLP and Information Security. His work combines topic models, sentiment analysis and statistical tests to transcripts on security topics, attempting to automatically infer conflicts between security and business processes.

Pontus Stenetorp Senior Research Associate

Pontus works somewhere in the intersection between Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. He is particularly interested in representation learning and is currently funded by a machine reading grant from the Allen Foundation.

Johannes Welbl 3rd year PhD Student

I'm interested in Machine Learning and NLP, in particular Reading Comprehension and Knowledge Base Inference. Currently I work on multi-step Reading Comprehension, a scenario in which a model combines multiple facts to arrive at an answer.

Jeff Mitchell Research Associate

I'm interested in using machine reading technology to extract and verify facts from raw text.

Pasquale Minervini Research Associate

Pasquale is interested in Machine Reading, and how to leverage background knowledge in representation learning algorithms. He is currently funded by a machine reading grant from the Allen Foundation.

Tom Crossland PhD Student

Tom is an astrophysicist working with the MR group and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, interested in Machine Learning applications to his original subject area. He is currently working on automatic measurement extraction from scientific literature, with a view to applying the results to galactic archaeology.

Ed Grefenstette Honorary Reader

Ed is interesting in teaching machines to understand and communicate using language (formal and natural), and in both neural and symbolic reasoning (and the intersection thereof). He is involved with UCLMR's research activities alongside a full time role in industry.

Patrick Lewis First Year PhD Student

Patrick is a first year PhD student, interested in Transfer Learning, Machine Reading and leveraging world knowledge to improve predictions in NLP systems.

Yuxiang Wu First Year PhD Student

Yuxiang is a first year PhD student, interested in combining connectionism and symbolism to improve the reasoning capability of NLP systems.

Saku Sugawara Visiting PhD Student

Saku is a Ph.D. student at the University of Tokyo, interested in natural language understanding by machines.

Andreas Vlachos Research Associate

Now a senior lecturer @ University of Cambridge.

Luke Hewitt Intern

Now a PhD student @ MIT.

Gerasimos Lampouras Research Associate

Now a research associate @ University of Sheffield.

Sonse Shimaoka Intern

Now a master student @ Tohoku University.

Guillaume Bouchard Senior Research Associate

Now a Research Manager @ Facebook

Thomas Demeester Visiting Researcher

Now a post-doc @ University of Ghent

Jason Naradowsky Research Associate

Théo Trouillon Visiting PhD Student

Now back to being a PhD student @ Xerox Research Centre Europe

Marzieh Saeidi PhD Student

Now a Research Scientist @ Facebook.

Isabelle Augenstein Research Associate

Now an assistant professor @ University of Copenhagen.

Tim Rocktäschel PhD Student

Now a Research Scientist @ Facebook & Lecturer @ UCL.

Naoya Inoue Visiting Researcher

Now an assistant professor @ Tohoku University.

Tim Dettmers Intern

Now a PhD student @ University of Washington.

V. Ivan Sanchez PhD Student

Now an NLP researcher @ Lenovo

Andres Campero Visiting PhD Student

Now back to being a PhD student @ MIT.

Takuma Yoneda Intern

Now a student @ Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Georgios Spithourakis PhD Student

Now a ML engineer @ PolyAI