| Name & Position | Contact | |
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| Prof.
Sophia Ananiadou Director |
sophia.ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk |
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| Mr.
John McNaught Deputy Director |
jock.mcnaught at manchester.ac.uk |
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| Mr. Paul Thompson Research staff Corpus Annotation, Information Extraction . |
paul.thompson at manchester.ac.uk |
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Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii |
j.tsujii at manchester.ac.uk |
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Visiting Researchers
| Name & Position | Contact | |
|---|---|---|
| Mr. Taiki Hara Information Retrieval, Reinforcement Learning and LLMs for patents, medicine and biotech |
taiki.hara at manchester.ac.uk |
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Associated Members
| Name & Position | Contact | |
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| Mr. Triantafillos Papadopoulos Archimedes, Athens, Greece FinTech |
tpapadopoulos21 at gmail.com |  |
| Ms. Eleni Partalidou Archimedes, Athens, Greece Uncertainty, Summarisation |
e.partalidou at gmail.com |  |
| Dr. Efstathia Soufleri Archimedes, Athens, Greece LLMs for Mental Health |
e.soufleri at athenarc.gr |  |
| Prof. Qianqian Xie School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan Universty, China |
xqq.sincere at gmail.com |  |
PhD Students
| Name & Research Details | Contact | |
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| Mr. Miltiades Angelides Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co-supervisor: Professor Paola Carbone Research Topic:Using Natural Language Processing and molecular simulations to build polymer databases Funding Source:AWE |
miltiades.angelides at student.manchester.ac.uk |
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| Mr. Polydoros Giannouris Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic:Multimodal NLP for Model-based Systems Engineering Funding Source:EPSRC iCASE BAE |
polydoros.giannouris at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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| Mr. Hanhua Hong Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic:Multi-modal LLM for Scientific Content Generation Funding Source:UoM and A*STAR PhD studentship |
hanhua.hong at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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| Mr. Jimin Huang Supervisor:Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co Supervisor:Jingyuan Sun Research Topic:Decision Foundation Models Funding Source:Dean’s Doctoral Scholarships |
jimin.huang at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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| Mr. Md Mohsinul Kabir Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co Supervisor: Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii Research Topic:Bias in LLMs Funding Source:UoM & European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) |
mdmohsinul.kabir at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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| Mr. Zhiwei Liu Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co-supervisor: Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii Research Topic: Sentiment Analysis Funding Source: University of Manchester Computer Science Department Scholarship |
zhiwei.liu-2 at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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| Ms.Yuyan Wang Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: ESG Impact Analysis on User Behaviour Using Large Language Models |
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| Mr. Kailai Yang Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou and Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii Research Topic: Emotion Detection Funding source: President's Doctoral Scholar Award |
kailai.yang at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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| Mr. Zeping Yu Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Pretrained Language Model Funding Source: Department of Computer Science Departmental Scholarship Award |
zeping.yu at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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| Ms. Xin Zhang Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: TBD |
xin.zhang-41 at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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Alumni
| Name | Year Graduated | Degree | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katerina Frantzi | 1998 | PhD | Professor of Informatics and Director of the Informatics Laboratory, Department of Mediterranean Studies, School of Humanities, University of Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. |
| Diana Maynard | 2000 | PhD | Senior Research Fellow, Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield |
| Kostas Manios | 2001 | MPhil | Software Developer, JRC, Seville |
| Goran Nenadic | 2003 | PhD | Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester. |
| Irena Spasic | 2004 | PhD | Professor, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University. |
| Xinkai Wang | 2011 | PhD | Research Associate, St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London |
| Raheel Nawaz | 2012 | PhD | Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor - Digital Transformation, Staffordshire University |
| Riza Theresa B. Batista-Navarro | 2014 | PhD | Senior Lecturer in Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester |
| Claudiu Mihaila | 2014 | PhD | Senior Data Scientist, Smartology.net, London |
| Georgios Kontonatsios | 2014 | PhD | Principal NLP Data Scientist, Chattermill, London |
| Dimitris Piliouras | 2014 | MPhil | Software Developer, University of Manchester |
| Noha Alnazzawi | 2016 | PhD | Assistant Professor, Yanbu Industrial College, Saudi Arabia |
| Max (Yuanhan) Mo | 2016 | MPhil | Research Associate, University of Oxford |
| Chrysoula Zerva | 2018 | PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Kurt Junshean Espinosa | 2019 | PhD | † |
| Meizhi Ju | 2019 | PhD | Tencent, China |
| Yifei Wang | 2019 | PhD | Research Associate, Big Data Analytics Research Group, University of Hull |
| Fenia Christopoulou | 2020 | PhD | Research Scientist, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, London |
| Thy Thy Tran | 2020 | PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher, UKP Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt |
| Maolin Li | 2021 | PhD | Deep Learning Researcher, MediaTek, Cambridge |
| Hassan Alhuzali | 2021 | PhD | Assistant Professor, Umm Al-Qura University |
| Erxue Min | 2022 | PhD | Baidu, China |
| Laura Vasquez-Rodriguez | 2023 | PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher, Computation, Cognition & Language group, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland. |
| Jenny Bishop | 2023 | MPhil | |
| Tianlin Zhang | 2024 | PhD | Researcher, CHN Energy, China |
| Jiarun Cao | 2024 | PhD | |
| Panagiotis Georgiadis | 2024 | PhD | |
| Jake Vasilakes | 2024 | PhD | Research Associate, School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield |
| Chenhan Yuan | 2025 | PhD | Quen,China |
| Zheheng Luo | 2025 | PhD | META |