About

The Cohort is an informal research group that works on natural language processing and machine learning. We are part of the larger Edinburgh NLP group at the University of Edinburgh.

We are located in the Forum, which hosts the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation and the School of Informatics as a whole.

People

Current Members


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Dimitris Dimakopoulos
PhD Student (co-advised with Yannis Konstas)
Since 2024
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Dominik Grabarczyk
PhD Student (co-advised with Javier Alfaro)
Since 2023
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Matt Grenander
PhD Student (co-advised with Mark Steedman)
Since 2021
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Balint Gyevnar
PhD Student (co-advised with Stefano Albrecht and Chris Lucas)
Since 2021
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Nickil Maveli
PhD Student (NLP CDT; co-advised with Antonio Vergari)
Since 2022
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Joshua Ong
Research assistant
Since 2024
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Shiwen Qin
PhD Student (co-advised with Elliot Crowley)
Since 2023
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Yifu Qiu
PhD Student (ELLIS student and Apple ML/AI scholar; co-advised with Anna Korhonen and Edoardo Ponti)
Since 2022
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Ke Wang
PhD Student (co-advised with Grzegorz Kudla)
Since 2023
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Zheng Zhao
PhD Student (co-advised with Bonnie Webber)
Since 2019
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Shay Cohen


Past Postdoctoral Researchers


Antonio Miceli
2022
now Researcher at Informatics, Edinburgh
Matthieu Labeau
2018 - 2019
now Assistant Professor at Telecom Paris
Maximin Coavoux
2018
Research Scientist at Naver Labs → CNRS Researcher
Shashi Narayan
2014 - 2019
now Research Scientist at Google
Yftah Ziser
2021-2024
now Researcher at NVIDIA → Assistant Professor at University of Groningen

Past PhD Students


Chunchuan Lyu
2017-2021 (co-advised with Ivan Titov)
Thesis: Graph-based Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsing
Emily Scher
2016-2020 (co-advised with Guido Sanguinetti)
Postdoc at Edinburgh → Biotech start-up
Thesis: Human Genome Interaction: Models for Designing DNA Sequences
Esma Balkir
2016-2021
now a researcher at National Research Council Canada
Thesis: Tensors and Tensor Decompositions for Incorporating External Information in Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Fazl Barez
2023 (co-advised with Ioannis Konstas)
now a researcher at Oxford University
Thesis: Advancing Safety in Machine Learning Through Model Interpretability
Javad Hosseini
2017-2020 (co-advised with Mark Steedman)
now at Google
Thesis: Unsupervised Learning of Relational Entailment Graphs from Text
Jiangming Liu
2017-2021 (co-advised with Mirella Lapata)
Researcher at Tencent → Associate Professor at Yunnan University
Thesis: Understanding and Generating Language with Discourse Representation Structures
John Torr
2015-2019 (co-advised with Mark Steedman)
Wluper → Apple
Thesis: Wide-Coverage Statistical Parsing with Minimalist Grammars
Marcio Fonseca
2024
Thesis: Controlling Context Factors in Abstractive Summarization of Long Documents
Marco Damonte
2015-2019
now at Amazon
Thesis: Understanding and Generating Language with Abstract Meaning Representation
Nikos Papasarantopoulos
2016-2019
now at Princeline
Thesis: Multi-view Representation Learning for NLP Applications
Ronald Cardenas
2024 (co-advised with Matthias Galle)
Thesis: Cognitive Structures of Content for Controlled Summarization

Other Past Members and Visitors


Alexander Clarke
M.Sc. student (2015)
Anastasia Danilochkina
M.Sc. student (2019)
Anna Donohoe
M.Sc. student (2015)
Arturo Oncevay
Visitor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2018)
now PhD student at Edinburgh
Bing Zheng
M.Sc. student (2019)
Chenmien Tan
MRes student (2024)
Chiraag Lala
M.Sc. student (2014)
now PhD student at Sheffield
Chris Doyle
M.Sc. student (2020)
Chuang Wang
MSc student (2023-2024)
Chunchuan Lyu
M.Sc. student (2016)
now PhD student at Edinburgh
DK Choe
Visitor, Brown University (2015)
now at Google
David Hodges
M.Sc. student (2017)
Dominique Osborne
Intern, University of Strathclyde (summer 2015)
Effy Li
M.Sc. student (2018)
now PhD student at UvA
Einat Minkov
Visitor, University of Haifa (2019)
Emilia Bogdanova
MInf student (2018)
now at Amazon
Filip Vlcek
MSc student then intern (2024)
Finn Zhan
Undergraduate student (2019)
Fuad Issa
M.Sc. student (2016)
Gabriel Lehericy
Visitor, Universitè Paris Diderot (2018)
Gavin Peng
Undergraduate student (2021)
M.Sc. student at Cambridge
Hang Gao
M.Sc. student (2019)
Helen Jiang
Intern, Stanford (summer 2016)
now PhD student at CMU
Hongyan Deng
M.Sc. student (2022)
Hongyuan Lu
M.Sc. student (2020)
now PhD student at Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jake Browning
Undergraduate student (2017)
James Friel
Undergraduate student (2017)
Jason Chen
M.Sc. student (2016)
Joana Ribeiro
M.Phil student (2019)
Justin Grace
M.Sc. student (2018)
now at UniBuddy
Lingzhe Zhao
M.Sc. student (2016)
Lucas Torroba Hennigen
Undergraduate student (2019)
master's student at Cambridge → PhD student at MIT
Marcio Fonseca
M.Sc. student (2018)
Maria Luque anguita
M.Sc. student (2022)
Mateusz Pyla
Undergraduate student (2020)
Matt Maufe
M.Sc. student (2021)
Merce Vintro Ricart
M.Sc. student (2016)
Mohammad Khazali
Undergraduate student (2021)
Moy Yuan
Visitor, University of Edinburgh → master's, then PhD student at Cambridge (2018)
Neo Zhu
Undergraduate student (2022)
MSc student at Cambridge
Nickil Maveli
MRes student (2021)
Cookpad → PhD student at Edinburgh
Nicola Martocchia Diodati
Intern, Scuola Normale Superiore (2017)
Povilas Budrys
Undergraduate student (2019)
Ronald Cardenas
Visitor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2017)
master's student at Prague/Malta → PhD student at Edinburgh
Sameer Khurana
M.Sc. student (2015)
now PhD student at MIT
Santiago Rivers Sottelo
M.Sc. student (2017)
Sean Memery
Intern, University of Edinburgh (2022)
now PhD student at Edinburgh
Shaojie Wu
M.Sc. student (2021)
Shihao Liu
M.Sc. student (2019)
Shucong Zhang
M.Sc. student (2017)
PhD student at Edinburgh → Toshiba, Cambridge
Shun Shao
MRes student (2022-2023)
Tao Meng
Intern, Tsinguha University (2017)
now PhD student at UCLA
Tim Enos
MSc student (2023-2024)
Tommy Pan
M.Sc. student (2018)
Waylon Li
Undergraduate then MRes student (2022)
now PhD student at Edinburgh
Weijian Li
Visitor, University of Edinburgh (2018)
now master's student at Northwestern University
Xiaotong Jiang
M.Sc. student (2021)
Yi Ren
M.Sc. student (2019)
now Ph.D. student at UBC
Yichao Liang
Undergraduate student (2020)
now master's student at Oxford
Yifu Qiu
M.Sc. student (2021)
PhD student at Edinburgh
Yiming Guo
M.Sc. student (2018)
Yuan (Lawrence) He
Undergraduate student (2018)
now PhD student at Oxford
Yumo Xu
M.Sc. student (2017)
now PhD student at Edinburgh
Zein Ramadan
M.Sc. student (2021)
Zheng Lu
Undergraduate student (2023-2024)
Zhifeng Hu
Visitor, Fudan University (2018)
Zhongfan Wang
Undergraduate student (2023-2024)
Zhunxuan Wang
M.Sc. student (2019)
now at Amazon London

Demos

Datasets and Code

Links to github repositories can be found in the papers.