Current
Yulong Chen
Postdoc
Working on automated fact-checking, funded by the ERC project AVERiTeC
Zhenyun Deng
Postdoc
Working on automated fact-checking, funded by the ERC project AVERiTeC
Xiaochen Zhu
PhD student
Working on deliberation, funded by the Cambridge Trusts
Postdoc Alumni
Youmna Farag (2021 – 2023)
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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 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
Working on natural language generation with imitation learning in Diligent and eNeMILP, now Senior 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 the robustness of NLP models, funded by AVERiTeC, now lecturer in Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London
Chenxi Whitehouse
Postdoc
Previously worked as an Applied Research Scientist at Amazon Research in Cambridge
Currently at Meta GenAI Research
PhD Alumni
Christine de Kock (2019 – 2023)
PhD Student
Working on constructive online disagreement (thesis), supported by Huawei and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, now Research fellow and associate lecturer at the University of Melbourne
Hardy (2017 – 2021)
PhD Student
Working on summarisation (thesis), co-supervised with Nikos Aletras, now postdoc at McGill University
Abiola Obamuyide (2016 – 2020)
PhD Student
Working on knowledge base population in SUMMA (thesis), now postdoc at the University of Strathclyde
Yunita Sari (2016-2019)
PhD student
Working on authorship attribution (thesis), co-supervised with Mark Stevenson, now at the Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Universitas Gadjah Mada
