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Researches knowledge computing, including knowledge graphs, ontology reasoning and the combination of knowledge graphs with large language models.
2026 Beyond Timestamps: Bridging Forward and Backward Reasoning in Temporal Numerical and Relational Understanding ACL 2026 From Sufficiency to Reflection: Reinforcement-Guided Thinking Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for LLMs EMNLP 44 T183 papersGroup size not listed GB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Pasquale Minervini Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Researches large language models, including retrieval-augmented generation, model steering, evaluation and knowledge graph reasoning.
2026 Can Retrieval Heads See Images? Multimodal Retrieval Heads in Long-Context Vision-Language Models EMNLP 2026 Do Composed Image Retrieval Benchmarks Require Multimodal Composition? NeurIPS 36 T169 papersGroup size not listed GB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Leads a group working on machine learning, reinforcement learning and language models, with interests in efficient deep learning and probabilistic methods.
2026 A Sobering Look at Tabular Data Generation with Probabilistic Circuits UAI 2026 Kalman Linear Attention: Parallel Bayesian Filtering for Efficient Language Modeling and State Tracking ICML 33 T161 papers18 membersGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Researches machine learning, including meta-learning, transfer learning and data-efficient learning for computer vision.
2025 A Stochastic Approach to Bi-Level Optimization for Hyperparameter Optimization and Meta Learning AAAI 2025 ConceptPrune: Concept Editing in Diffusion Models via Skilled Neuron Pruning ICLR 33 T144 papers9 members15 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Researches computer vision and machine learning, with emphasis on 3D understanding, human-in-the-loop methods and AI for biodiversity monitoring.
2026 BiMotion: B-spline Motion for Text-guided Dynamic 3D Character Generation CVPR 2026 Bootstrapping Articulated 3D Reconstruction from 2D Image Collections ECCV 29 T136 papers11 members5 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Researches computational linguistics and statistical learning, especially predicting structure from text, spectral learning and text analysis in finance.
2026 Can I Have Your Order? Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Slot Filling Ordering in Diffusion Language Models ICML 2026 Integrating Counterfactual Simulations with Language Models for Explaining Multi-Agent Behaviour AAMAS 29 T154 papers7 members16 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Researches automatic speech recognition, including adaptation and low-resource speech recognition.
2026 TTSDS2: Resources and Benchmark for Evaluating Human-Quality Text to Speech Systems ICLR 2026 "Walk a Mile in My Voice": Voice Conversion Shapes Trust, Attribution, and Empathy in Human-AI Speech Interactions IUI Companion 26 T148 papers9 members5 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Develops natural language processing systems that reason, generalise and adapt, including summarisation, semantic parsing and question answering.
2026 Generating Visual Stories with Grounded and Coreferent Characters TACL 2026 GraphLit: Learning Text-Enriched Dynamic Character Network Representations for Literary Study EMNLP 22 T144 papers8 members33 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Works on natural language processing and machine learning, including sparse and differentiable structure in models, knowledge editing in LLMs and…
2026 Truthful or Fabricated? Using Causal Attribution to Mitigate Reward Hacking in Explanations ICLR 2026 Analyzing LLM Instruction Optimization for Tabular Fact Verification Findings of EACL 19 T131 papersGroup size not listed GB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Works on multilingual and multimodal natural language processing, including machine translation and applications of language models.
2026 HBO: Hierarchical Balancing Optimization for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models ICLR 2026 Learning to Summarize by Learning to Quiz: Adversarial Agentic Collaboration for Long Document Summarization ICLR 18 T146 papers7 members15 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Fengxiang He Lecturer in Machine Learning Studies the learning-theoretic and game-theoretic foundations of AI behaviour, including generalisation, privacy and fairness, and symmetry-exploiting…
2026 Inverse Learning of Black-Box Aggregator for Robust Nash Equilibrium TAC 2026 Aijie Shu, Bowei Chen, Wenbin Wu, Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen, Fengxiang He, DeXposure-Claw: An Agentic System for DeFi Risk Supervision. 2026. 17 T155 papers9 membersGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Researches computer vision and machine learning, including weakly supervised learning, representation learning and dense prediction.
2026 BAT3R: Bootstrapping Articulated 3D Reconstruction from 2D Image Collections ECCV 2026 Beyond Pixel Histories: World Models with Persistent 3D State ICML 17 T125 papersGroup size not listed · 8 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Zee Talat Chancellor's Fellow in Responsible Machine Learning Works between machine learning and science and technology studies, developing critiques of ML and content moderation methods such as abusive language detection.
2026 Aligning Stuttered-Speech Research with End-User Needs: Scoping Review, Survey, and Guidelines Interspeech 2026 FedMental: Federated Learning For Mental Health Detection ACL 15 T139 papersGroup size not listed GB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Researches speech synthesis, articulatory modelling and the relationship between articulation and acoustics.
2025 AccentBox: Towards High-Fidelity Zero-Shot Accent Generation ICASSP 2025 Acquiring Pronunciation from Speech Audio via Multi-task Learning Interspeech 14 T119 papers5 members3 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Leads the SMASH group, applying social NLP to computational social science problems such as polarisation, political bias and online behaviour.
2026 "God says we are right!": The Interplay between Religion and Propaganda on Arabic Social Media CHI 2026 ParsHate: A Benchmark Dataset for Hate and Target Detection in Persian EMNLP 14 T130 papers15 members20 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Wenda Li Lecturer in Hybrid AI Researches neuro-symbolic reasoning and AI for mathematics, including machine learning and language models for theorem proving.
2026 APE-Bench: Evaluating Automated Proof Engineering for Formal Math Libraries ICML 2026 Can I Have Your Order? Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Slot Filling Ordering in Diffusion Language Models ICML 14 T118 papers8 members1 alumnusGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Catherine Lai Lecturer in Speech and Language Processing Studies spoken language, especially prosody and its role in conversation, using speech technology and computational analysis.
2026 The Sound of Silencing: Identities and Ideologies in Commercial Text-To-Speech CHI 2026 MaiChat: A Text-based Dialogue Corpus Rich In Conversational Features LREC 13 T127 papers7 members7 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Researches machine learning systems across the stack, from models and data to runtimes, systems software and AI hardware.
2026 BatchGen: An Architecture for Scalable and Efficient Batch Inference OSDI 2026 BitDecoding: Unlocking Tensor Cores for Long-Context LLMs with Low-Bit KV Cache HPCA 12 T113 papers15 members3 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Vaishak Belle Reader in Logic and Learning Leads the Belle Lab, researching logic and learning, including neuro-symbolic AI, probabilistic reasoning and explainable and responsible AI.
2026 Epistemic Modal Logic Meets Algebraic Model Counting. AAMAS 2026 LTLBench: Towards Benchmarks for Evaluating Temporal Reasoning in Large Language Models. TMLR 11 T182 papers5 members18 alumniGB EdinburghSchool of Informatics
Hao Tang Lecturer in Speech Technology Studies speech and language processing, particularly self-supervised speech representations and models of who says what, when and where.
2026 Identifying the minimal and maximal phonetic subspace of speech representations ICASSP 2026 MELD: Mel-spectrogram-based speech language modeling with discrete latent variables EMNLP 10 T129 papers7 members8 alumni