Organising committee
Organising committee
Hongyi Yang is a 2nd-year PhD student in Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. His research interests include Language Teacher Education, Assessment Literacy, and AI-assisted Language Assessment. His work seeks to understand how language teachers exercise assessment in real classroom situations, and how AI can be meaningfully integrated into the teaching, learning, and assessment of languages. He is currently a Co-PI of the project "Bridging Human and AI Judgement in Writing Assessment: An Eye-Tracking Study", funded by the Cambridge Language Sciences Incubator Fund and Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
E-mail: hy408@cam.ac.uk.
Gabrielle Gaudeau is a 3rd-year PhD student in the NLIP group of the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on automating written assessment and feedback generation for second-language learners, supported by the Institute for Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA) and Cambridge University Press & Assessment. She has contributed to top NLP venues, with recent work at ACL 2025 pioneering new frameworks for evaluating LLM-generated explanations. She also serves on the organising committee of ACL 2026 as a Diversity & Inclusion Chair, and is dedicated to shaping the ethical integration of Large Language Models in educational settings.
E-mail: gjg34@cam.ac.uk.
Andreas Säuberli is a 2nd-year PhD student at MaiNLP research lab (LMU Munich). His research interests lie at the intersection of NLP and psycholinguistics, focusing on applications in the domain of second language education. His work explores the use of eye-tracking data to improve and evaluate technologies for language learning and assessment.
E-mail: andreas.saeuberli@lmu.de.
Liz Blackwell is a research assistant working at the ALTA Institute (Department of Computer Science & Technology), having recently completed her MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the Cambridge University Phonetics Laboratory .
E-mail: ecb76@cam.ac.uk.
Andrew Caines is a Research Professor in the NLIP Group & ALTA Institute based in the Department of Computer Science & Technology at the University of Cambridge.