Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised 

University of Cambridge

• Bruce Yang,  Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, in progress

• Eric Chiang, Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, in progress

• Howard Mei  Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, in progress, joint with Marcus Tomalin

• Alexandru Coca Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, in progress

• Weizhe Lin  - Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 

Augmenting Multi-modal Question Answering Systems with Retrieval Methods, 2024 [.pdf] 

• Bo-Hsiang (Andy) Tseng Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 

Natural Language Understanding and Generation for Task-Oriented Dialogue, 2022 [.pdf]

• Danielle Saunders Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 2020
  Domain adaptation for Neural Machine Translation [.pdf] 

Best Thesis Award, European Association for Machine Translation, 2021

• Felix Stahlberg Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 2019
  The Role of Language Models and Hierarchical Models in Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Prediction [.pdf]
  Best Thesis Award, European Association for Machine Translation, 2019

• Matic Horvat, Ph.D. Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, 2017 (jointly with Prof A. Copestake)
  Hierarchical statistical semantic translation and realization

• Rory Waite, Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 2015
  The Geometry of Statistical Machine Translation [.pdf]

• Juan Pino, Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 2015
  Refinements in Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation Systems [.pdf]

• Matt Shannon Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 2014
  Probabilistic acoustic modelling for parametric speech synthesis, [.pdf]

• Graeme Blackwood, Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 2010
  Lattice Rescoring Methods for Statistical Machine Translation [.pdf]

• Jamie Brunning, Ph.D. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, 2010
  Alignment Models and Algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation [.pdf]

The Johns Hopkins University

• Lambert Mathias, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2007
  Statistical Machine Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition under Uncertainty
  Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]

• Yonggang Deng, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
  Bitext Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation
  Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]

• Stavros Tsakalidis, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
  Linear Transforms in Automatic Speech Recognition: Discriminative Estimation Procedures and Integration of Diverse Acoustic Data
  Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]

• Veera Venkataramani, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
  Support Vector Machines For Segmental Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding Of Continuous Speech
  Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]

• Shankar Kumar, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
  Minimum Bayes-Risk Techniques in Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation
  Thesis defense [.pdf], Dissertation [.pdf]

• Vlasios Doumpiotis, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2005
  Discriminative Training for Speaker Adaptation and Minimum Risk Estimation in Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition
  Dissertation [.pdf]

• Vaibhava Goel, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, JHU, 2001
  Minimum Bayes-Risk Automatic Speech Recognition

• Asela Gunawardana, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2001
  The Information Geometry of EM Variants for Speech and Image Processing

• John McDonough, Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, JHU, 2000
  Speaker Compensation with All-Pass Transforms