Current

Postdoc Alumni

  • Rui Cao (2023-2024): postdoc working on multimodal automated fact-checking, funded by the Alan Turing Institute, now Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design

  • Youmna Farag (2021-2023): postdoc working on dialogue agents for argumentation, funded by the EPSRC project Opening Up Minds, now at Toshiba Research Europe

  • Zhijiang Guo (2021-2022): postdoc working on automated fact-checking, funded by the ERC project AVERiTeC, now Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and previously Senior Research Scientist at Huawei

  • Amrith Krishna (2020-2022): postdoc working on automated fact-checking using structured representations in collaboration with Sebastian Riedel and funded by Facebook, now Staff Scientist at Uniphore

  • Gerasimos Lampouras (2015-2018): postdoc on natural language generation with imitation learning in Diligent and eNeMILP, now Principal Research Scientist at Huawei

  • Nedjma Djouhra Ousidhoum (2021-2023): postdoc working on fact-checking for journalists, funded by the EU-H2020 project MONITIO, now lecturer at the University of Cardiff

  • Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull (2021-2023): postdoc working on automated fact-checking, funded by the ERC project AVERiTeC, now lecturer in Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London

  • Chenxi Whitehouse (2024): postdoc working on automated fact-checking, funded by the ERC project AVERiTeC, now at Meta GenAI Research, previously at Amazon Research Cambridge

PhD Alumni

  • Rami Aly (2020-2024): PhD student working on neuro-symbolic fact verification (thesis), funded by EPSRC, now building Edu.Harbour

  • Julius Cheng (2020-2025): PhD student working on machine translation (thesis), funded by Huawei

  • Christine de Kock (2019-2023): PhD student on constructive online disagreement (thesis), supported by Huawei and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, now Research fellow and associate lecturer at the University of Melbourne

  • Georgi Karadzhov (2019-2024): PhD student and postdoc on deliberation enhancing bots (thesis), co-supervised with Tom Stafford, funded by EPSRC and Google, now at Google

  • Michail Korakakis (2020-2025), PhD student working on the robustness of NLP models, funded by ESRC. now postdoc at the Alan Turing Institute

  • Pietro Lesci (2021-2025): PhD student working on causality and LLMs, funded by the ERC project AVERiTeC, now at Engineers Gate

  • Hardy (2017-2021): PhD student on summarisation (thesis), co-supervised with Nikos Aletras, now postdoc at McGill University

  • Abiola Obamuyide (2016-2020): PhD student on knowledge base population in SUMMA (thesis), now postdoc at the University of Strathclyde

  • Yunita Sari (2016-2019): PhD student on authorship attribution (thesis), co-supervised with Mark Stevenson, now at the Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Universitas Gadjah Mada

  • James Thorne (2016-2021): PhD student on automated fact-checking (thesis), supported by Amazon, co-supervised with Christos Christodoulopoulos and Arpit Mittal, now assistant professor at KAIST

  • Moy Yuan (2021-2025): PhD student working on factuality and forecasting, funded by the ERC project AVERiTeC, now at Amazon AGI

MSc Alumni

Undergraduate Alumni