Oct 2020- : Quantinuum / Cambridge Quantum
Head of Applied Quantum NLP Research
Oct 2018-Sep 2020: Apple
NLP Research Scientist, Siri natural language modelling team
Apr 2017-Sep 2018: Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
Research Associate in the EPSRC-funded project "Semantic Interpretation of Personal Health Messages" (PI: Nigel Collier)
Jan 2015-Mar 2017: School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
Research Assistant in the project "Logical and Algorithmic Aspects when Composing Meanings" (PI: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh)
2011-2015: PhD in Computational Linguistics, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Thesis: Compositional Distributional Semantics with Compact Closed Categories and Frobenius Algebras [pdf]
Supervisors: M. Sadrzadeh, B. Coecke, S. Pulman
Examiners: Stephen Clark, Samson Abramsky
2009-2010: MSc in Artificial Intelligence with Distinction, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Thesis: Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing with Quantifier Scope [pdf]
Supervisor: Mark Steedman
2003–2008: BSc (Hons) in Computing, The Open University of the United Kingdom
StarSem 2013 ● IWCS 2015 ● EMNLP 2015 ● QPL 2015 ● QI 2015 ● Workshop on Advances in Distributional Semantics (IWCS 2015) ● NAACL 2016 ● COLING 2016 ● IWCS 2017 ● NAACL 2017 ● ACL 2017 ● EMNLP 2017 ● NAACL 2018 ● ACL 2018 ● EMNLP 2018 ● CoNLL 2018 ● COLING 2018 ● QI 2018 ● SEMSPACE at ESSLLI 2019 ● NAACL 2019 ● SYCO 3 ● EMNLP 2019 ● Quantum AI and NLP 2025
ACL 2019, Area Chair for Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics
Journal of Language Modelling ● Journal of Logic, Language and Information ● Journal of Computer Speech & Language ● Algorithms ● Language Resources and Evaluation ● Compositionality ● Psychological Review
Reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
Sep 2018: Workshop on Compositional Approaches in Physics, NLP, and Social Sciences (colocated with QI 2018), with B. Coecke (Oxford), M. Lewis (Amsterdam), Dan Marsden (Oxford). Nice, France [website]
2017-2018: Organization of the Language Technology Labs Seminars in DTAL, Cambridge
July 2017: One-week ESSLLI 2017 course: “Introduction to Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics”, with M. Lewis (Oxford). Toulouse, France [slides]
June 2017: The 15th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language (MoL), with M. Sadrzadeh and M. Purver. QMUL, London [volume]
Dec 2016: COLING 2016 tutorial: “Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning”, with M. Sadrzadeh (QMUL). Osaka, Japan [website] [slides]
June 2016: Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science (co-located with QPL 2016), with M. Lewis (Oxford) and L. Rimell (Cambridge). Glasgow, Scotland [website] [volume]
April 2015: Publication Chair of IWCS 2015
2015-2016: Organization of the NLP Seminar for the CompLing Lab in QMUL
May 2022: Quantum NLP 2022, Ofxord: Quantum Natural Language Processing with lambeq.
Dec 2019: Quantum NLP 2019, University of Oxford: Compositional NLP and Quantum Mechanics.
Feb 2019: University of Cambridge, LTL seminar: Mapping Text to Knowledge Graph Entities with Multi-Sense LSTMs
Oct 2018: Queen Mary University of London, NLP Seminar: Mapping Text to Knowledge Graph Entities with Multi-Sense LSTMs
Feb 2017: University of Oxford, Oxford Advanced Seminar on Informatic Structures (OASIS): Linear and Non-linear Models of Natural Language Semantics
August 2016: Workshop on Applications of Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, London: Tensor-based Models of Natural Language Semantics
June 2015: Queen Mary University of London, Theory Group Seminar: Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language Processing
May 2015: University of Cambridge, NLIP Seminar. Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language Processing
March 2015: University of Oxford, Computational Linguistics course, invited talk. Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning