Current Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Dr Jeff Dalton
Chancellor’s Fellow/Reader (Associate Professor)
His main research interests focus on the intersection of natural language understanding and information seeking for complex tasks.
@jeffd

Postdoc

Dr Chuan Meng
Postdoctoral Researcher (Research Associate)
His main research interests focus on agentic information access systems, and deep research systems
@ChuanMg


PhD Students

Carlos Gemmell
Develops new machine learning methods to deepen human-machine collaboration by breaking down structured tasks like programming into a conversation.
@aquaktus

Iain Mackie
Develops new methods based on deep learning for information extraction and knowledge-centric ranking tasks.
@iain_with_2is

Paul Owoicho
Studies the use of mixed-initiative and feedback for open-domain Conversational Information Seeking.
@ogbonokopaul


Federico Rossetto
Develops new methods for Music Representation Learning and Conditional Conversation Generation.
@FedingoRoss91


Francesco Dalla Serra (joint with Canon & Dr Deligianni)
Develops multi-modal visual question answering for medical applications as part of his industrial PhD in conjunction with Canon Medical.

Sophie Fischer
She focusses on multi-modal representation learning in a conversational setting to allow tasks like Visual Question Answering.
@sophie_fisch

Ekaterina (Katya) Taktasheva
Works on the integration of user preferences and extended context reasoning for tool-augmented language models within dialogue settings.
@evtaktasheva

Academic Collaborators

Past Lab Members