I am a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh, working in the StatMT group. The central themes of my research are designing NLP systems with a strong awareness of linguistic context and developing novel evaluation datasets to challenge these systems. My research interests include Machine Translation and evaluating Large Language Models.
I completed my PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, where I was supervised by Bonnie Webber. The focus of my thesis was on discourse in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), specifically addressing the problem of pronoun translation. Following the completion of my PhD I was a visiting researcher at Uppsala University and a postdoctoral researcher in CIS at Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU Munich). From LMU I joined Brainnwave, an Edinburgh-based AI startup, as a Data Scientist working on the automatic detection of threats and hate speech on social media. From 2017 to 2023 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, working with Mark Steedman on the ERC SEMANTAX project on learning Entailment Graphs from text. From 2023 to 2024 I was a Senior NLP Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.
I also hold an MSc in Artificial Intelligence (specialising in NLP) from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Warwick . Between my undergraduate and postgraduate studies I worked as a software developer and database administrator.
In my spare time I study Aikido and languages. I also enjoy hiking, swimming, and baking.