Who we are

Oliver Lemon, Ph.D. (Professor)

@oliverlemon

Verena Rieser, Ph.D. (Professor, Director of NLP lab) 

Arash Eshghi,  Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)

Yannis Konstas, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) 

Christian Dondrup, PhD. (Assistant Professor)

Matthew Aylett, Ph.D.  (Associate Professor)

Phil Bartie, Ph.D. (Associate Professor)

Alessandro Suglia, Ph.D.  (Assistant Professor)

Marta Romeo, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)

Gavin Abercrombie, Ph.D.  (Assistant Professor) 

Tanvi Dinkar, Ph.D. (Research Associate)

Nancie Gunson, Ph.D. (Research Associate)

Daniel Hernandez, Ph.D. (Research Associate)

Angus Addlesee (Research Assistant / PhD student)

Arash Ashrafzadeh (PhD student)

Sabrina McCallum (PhD student)

Javier Chiyah-Garcia (PhD student)

Miruna Clinciu (PhD student)

Amit Parekh (PhD student)

Konstantinos Gavriilidis (PhD student)

Meriam Moujahid (PhD student)

Birthe Nesset (PhD student)

Malvina Nikandrou (PhD student)

Georgios Pantazopoulos (PhD student)

Karin Sevegnani (PhD student)

Weronika Sieinska (PhD student)

Bhathiya Supun (PhD student) 

Nikolas Vitsakis (PhD student)

Ondrej Dusek, Ph.D.  (joined faculty at Charles University, Prague)

Jekaterina Novikova, Ph.D (joined  Winterlight Labs, Canada)

Yanchao Yu (PhD, joined faculty at  Napier Uni) 

Mary Ellen Foster,  Ph. D. (joined faculty at Glasgow Uni)

Simon Keizer, Ph.D.(joined faculty at Uni Brussels)

Ioannis Efstathiou, Ph.D.  (hired at Chatterbox Labs)

 Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Ph.D. (Visiting Researcher)

Srini Janarthanam, Ph.D.  (founder of Chatomate.com )

Dimitra Gkatzia, Ph.D. (joined faculty at Napier Uni)

Nina Dethlefs , Ph.D. (joined faculty at Hull Uni)

Zhuoran Wang, Ph. D. (Toshiba, Cambridge Research Lab, then Baidu, then Trio.ai)

Paul A. Crook, Ph.D. (moved to Microsoft, Seattle)

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Ph.D. (joined faculty at Lincoln Uni)

Alyssa Alcorn (moved to Edinburgh Uni, PhD)

Elaine Farrow (joined  Edinburgh Uni)

Eshrag Refaee (PhD,  joined faculty at Jazaan Uni)

Katrin Lohan, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)

Shubham Agarwal (PhD student)

Frank Broz, PhD.

Emanuele Bastianelli, PhD. 

David Howcroft (hired at Napier Uni)

Jose Lopes, PhD. 

Andrea Vanzo, PhD. 

Amanda Cercas-Curry (PhD student)

Igor Shalyminov (PhD, hired at  Amazon Alexa)

Jose Part  (PhD, hired at Alana AI)

Yiannis Papaioannou (PhD,  CTO of Alana AI)

Xinnuo Xu (PhD, joined Edinburgh Uni)

Helen Hastie, Ph.D. (Professor), moved to Edinburgh University as Head of School of Informatics.

Claudio Greco (Research Associate, hired at Alana AI

Xingkun Liu, Ph.D. (Research Associate)