Current PhD Students

  • Veronica Qing Lyu. Veronica is a PhD student in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research addresses probing language models for robustness and interpretability, and natural language semantics.
    Veronica is advised by me and Chris Callison-Burch.
Past PhD Students

  • Aina Garí Soler. Graduated from Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France, in June 2021.
    Aina did her PhD on lexical semantics in the framework of the MultiSem ANR project.
    Title of the PhD: Word Meaning Representation in Neural Language Models: Lexical Polysemy and Semantic Relationships. Co-advised with Alexandre Allauzen.
    Aina is now a Post-doctoral Researcher at Telecom-Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France.
  • Reno Kriz. Graduated from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US, in June 2021.
    Reno did his PhD on Text Simplification.
    Title of the PhD: Towards a Practically Useful Text Simplification System. Co-advised with Chris Callison-Burch.
    Reno is currently a Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US.
  • Anne Cocos. Graduated from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US, May 2019.
    Anne did her PhD on lexical semantics and paraphrasing.
    Title of the PhD: Paraphrase-based Models of Lexical Semantics.
    Co-advised with Chris Callison-Burch.
Past MSc Students

  • Dmitry Narkevich. Master's student in Language Technology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
    Dima's Thesis was on verb troponymy identification with contextual language models.
  • Stratos Xenouleas. Master's student in NLP at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Graduated in Fall 2020.
    Stratos' MSc Thesis was on summarisation quality estimation and evaluation.
    Co-advised with Ion Androutsoulos and Prodromos Malakasiotis.