About Me
I am a Lecturer (=Assistant Professor) in Natural Language Processing at Queen's University Belfast, affiliated with the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Centre for Intelligent Sustainable Computation.
Previously, I was a PhD student and later a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. During the time, I was a GAIL Fellow and a member of the machine translation group, EdinburghNLP, and Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. I also worked at Aveni.ai as a senior research engineer, where we delivered the UK's first LLM for financial services.
I am actively recruiting PhD students, research assistants, and visiting researchers to work on the research topics listed below. Funding opportunities include: 1) DfE/EPSRC-funded projects like this and this; 2) country-specific programmes such as CSC and LPDP; 3) self-funded projects.
Research Interests
- make AI work for complex tasks: long-context modelling; reward modelling; self-improving systems
- make AI work for everyone: multilingual multicultural NLP; machine translation; LLM personalization
- measure progress meaningfully: evaluation robust to memorization; scalable and reliable benchmarking
- AI/LLMs for finance and coding
Experience
- 2025-now, Queen's University Belfast, Assistant Professor
- 2024-2025, University of Edinburgh, Research Associate
- 2024-2025, Aveni.ai, Senior Research Engineer
- 2020-2024, University of Edinburgh, PhD, advised by Kenneth Heafield and Barry Haddow
- 2023, Microsoft, Research Visit
- 2022, Huawei, Research Intern
- 2019, University of Edinburgh, Research Assistant
- 2015-2019, University of Edinburgh, BEng, 1st class & class medal for highest marks
- 2018, Goldman Sachs, Technology Analyst Intern
Website last updated: 04 July 2026.