Supervision

PhD Students

  • Watheq Mansour (primary advisor, current): Efficient and Effective Data Augmentation Strategies for Information Retrieval.

  • Daisuke Yukita (associate advisor, current): Human-centered Verification of Large Language Model Outputs.

  • Farid Ariai (associate advisor, current): Towards Multi-Jurisdictional Legal NLP Systems.

  • Pietro Bernardelle (associated advisor, current): Leveraging Personas to Study and Control Ideological Biases in Large Language Models.

  • Dr Shengyao Zhuang (associate advisor, graduated 2023): Teaching Pre-Trained Language Models to Rank Effectively, Efficiently, and Robustly.

Masters Students

  • Stefano Civelli (associate advisor, current): Political Bias in Large Language Models for Content Moderation: a Persona-based Perspective.

  • Chuting Yu (associated advisor, current): TBA.

Honours Students

  • Bill Rule (current): Fast, Compact, and Dynamic Indexing for Learned Sparse Retrieval Systems.

  • Charlotte Pietsch (graduated 2024): Revisiting Impact-Based Index Structures for Efficient Ranking.

  • Zhixuan Li (graduated 2024): Exploring Batch Query Processing for Web Search.

Potential Students

If you are interested in working with me and wish to pursue a higher degree by research, please read the information on my recruiting page to find out more about selection criteria and how to apply.