Current Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Dr Jeff Dalton
Lecturer (tenure-track Assistant Professor)
His main research interests focus on the intersection of natural language understanding and information seeking for complex tasks.
@jeffd
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
Yola Jones (joint with MVLS)
Develops machine learning to predict those at risk of sudden death and other catastrophic events using electronic health records and focusing on cardiovascular disease.
@jones_yola
Iain Mackie
Develops new methods based on deep learning for information extraction and knowledge-centric ranking tasks.
@iain_with_2is
Paul Owoicho (starting Jan. 2021)
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.
Research Assistants
Zay-yar Tun
Develops new methods for improving social content discovery for the BBC’s voice assistant, Beeb.
Academic Collaborators
- Anton Leuski - USC ICT
- Emine Yilmaz - UCL
- Shahrzad Naseri - UMass CIIR
- Laura Dietz - UNH
- Leif Azzopardi - Strathyclyde
- Fani Deligianni
- Glasgow Terrier Team
Past Lab Members
Research Interns
- Enrico Trombetta
- Adam Czyzewski (now @ EPFL)