NaCTeM
Name & Position Contact
Prof. Sophia Ananiadou

 Director 		sophia.ananiadou
at manchester.ac.uk
Mr. John McNaught

Deputy Director 		jock.mcnaught
at manchester.ac.uk
Mr. Paul Thompson

Research staff

Corpus Annotation,
Information Extraction		 paul.thompson
at manchester.ac.uk

Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii

Professor
NaCTeM Scientific Advisor

Co-affiliated with National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

 j.tsujii
at manchester.ac.uk

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

Associated Members

Name & Position Contact
Mr. Jimin Huang

The Fin AI, Singapore 		jimin.huang at thefin.ai
Mr. Triantafillos Papadopoulos

Archimedes, Athens, Greece

FinTech 		tpapadopoulos21 at gmail.com
Ms. Eleni Partalidou

Archimedes, Athens, Greece

Uncertainty, Summarisation 		e.partalidou at gmail.com
Prof. Qianqian Xie

School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan Universty, China 		xqq.sincere at gmail.com

PhD Students

Name & Research Details Contact
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
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
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
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
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
Ms.Yuyan Wang

Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou
Research Topic: ESG Impact Analysis on User Behaviour Using Large Language Models
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
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
Ms. Xin Zhang

Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou
Research Topic: TBD
 xin.zhang-41
at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

MPhil Students

Name & Research Details Contact
Mr. Beiyu Xu

Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou
Research Topic: Text mining for mental health		 beiyu.xu
at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Alumni

NameYear GraduatedDegreeCurrent Position
Katerina Frantzi1998PhDProfessor of Informatics and Director of the Informatics Laboratory, Department of Mediterranean Studies, School of Humanities, University of Aegean, Rhodes, Greece.
Diana Maynard2000PhDSenior Research Fellow, Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Kostas Manios2001MPhilSoftware Developer, JRC, Seville
Goran Nenadic2003PhDProfessor, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.
Irena Spasic2004PhDProfessor, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University.
Xinkai Wang2011PhDResearch Associate, St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London
Raheel Nawaz2012PhDProfessor and Pro Vice Chancellor - Digital Transformation, Staffordshire University
Riza Theresa B. Batista-Navarro2014PhDSenior Lecturer in Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Claudiu Mihaila2014PhDSenior Data Scientist, Smartology.net, London
Georgios Kontonatsios2014PhDPrincipal NLP Data Scientist, Chattermill, London
Dimitris Piliouras2014MPhilSoftware Developer, University of Manchester
Noha Alnazzawi2016PhDAssistant Professor, Yanbu Industrial College, Saudi Arabia
Max (Yuanhan) Mo2016MPhilResearch Associate, University of Oxford
Chrysoula Zerva2018PhDPostdoctoral Researcher, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Lisbon, Portugal
Kurt Junshean Espinosa2019PhD†
Meizhi Ju2019PhDTencent, China
Yifei Wang2019PhDResearch Associate, Big Data Analytics Research Group, University of Hull
Fenia Christopoulou2020PhDResearch Scientist, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, London
Thy Thy Tran2020PhDPostdoctoral Researcher, UKP Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt
Maolin Li2021PhDDeep Learning Researcher, MediaTek, Cambridge
Hassan Alhuzali2021PhDAssistant Professor, Umm Al-Qura University
Erxue Min2022PhDBaidu, China
Laura Vasquez-Rodriguez2023PhDPostdoctoral Researcher, Computation, Cognition & Language group, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland.
Jenny Bishop2023MPhil
Tianlin Zhang2024PhDResearcher, CHN Energy, China
Jiarun Cao2024PhD
Panagiotis Georgiadis2024PhD
Jake Vasilakes2024PhDResearch Associate, School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Chenhan Yuan2025PhDQuen,China
Zheheng Luo2025PhDMETA