Team

Martha Lewis

Assistant Professor, ILLC, University of Amsterdam

Group leader, working in compositionality, abstraction, and understanding how humans and AI models reason.

📨m.a.f.lewis @ uva.nl

Beth Pearson

PhD student, University of Bristol. Co-supervisor: Michael Wray

My interests are in multimodality, compositional generalisation and reasoning.

Jasmine Owers

PhD student, University of Bristol. Co-supervisor: Edwin Simpson

My interests are in understanding how models interpret figurative language.

Kairui Zhang

PhD student, University of Bristol. Co-supervisor: Zahraa Abdallah

Multimodality, interpretability

Mette Andersen

Research Intern, Master of Logic, University of Amsterdam

Metaphor understanding in Large Language Models, Mechanistic Interpretability

Students and interns

Alumni

PhD Students

Xiaoyu Tong, graduated July 2026. Congratulations Xiaoyu!

Zhijin Guo, PhD University of Bristol 2025, now postdoc University of Oxford and research scientist JP Morgan

Masters Students

Shihui Li (MSc Logic, Amsterdam, 2026)

Philipp Hellwig (ResMas Psychology, Amsterdam 2026)

Hidde Schuuring (Bachelor AI, Amsterdam 2026)

Bilal Boulbarss (MSc Data Science, Amsterdam, 2025)

Ananay Wadehra (MSc Data Science, Amsterdam, 2025)

Rens Roelen (MSc Data Science, Amsterdam, 2025)

Clio Feng (MSc AI, Amsterdam, 2025)

Henrietta Chen (MSc Logic, Amsterdam, 2025)

Varun Vishal (MSc Data Science, Bristol, 2023)

Shiyu Zhao (MSc Data Science, Bristol, 2023)

Danni Feng (MSc Data Science, Bristol, 2023)

Changshuo Wang (MSc Engineering Maths, Bristol, 2022)

Qiming Chen (MSc Engineering Maths, Bristol, 2022)

Mike Nelhams (MEng Engineering Maths, Bristol 2022).

Ben Lippold (MEng Engineering Maths, Bristol, 2022).

Shuhao Zhang (MSc Data Science, Bristol, 2021).

Jiaqi Wu (MSc Data Science, Bristol, 2021).

Xiaoyu Tong (MSc Brain and Cognitive Sciences, UvA, 2020, co-supervised with Ekaterina Shutova).

Francois Meyer (MSc AI, Amsterdam, 2020).

Verna Dankers (MSc AI, Amsterdam, 2019, co-supervised with Ekaterina Shutova).

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