Supervisors – by first skill domain

Co-creation and NLP futures

Caterina Moruzzi

Human-AI co-creativity, Philosophy of technology, Creative agency, Computational creativity

Chris Elsden

Service Design, Futures Methods, FinTech, Licensing & Rights Management, Decentralised Technologies

Jen Ross

education, cultural heritage, speculative methods, futures

Susan Lechelt

Environmental sustainability, community-focused research, engaging non-experts with computing

Judy Robertson

school education GenAI children

Designing for Human-AI partnership

Amy Wilson

Bayesian reasoning, scientific evidence evaluation in the law and policing, graphical modelling, decision-making under uncertainty

Anouk Lang

digital humanities, computational literary analysis, digital literary studies, bias, digital culture

Aurora Constantin

Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Assistive Technology with AI support, Human–AI Interaction for Accessibility and Inclusion, Collaborative AI for Neurodiverse Users, AI-Powered Multimodal Interfaces.

Bonan Zhao

computational cognitive science, cognitive modeling, reasoning, world models, communication

Chris Cummins

pragmatics, conversation, inference, communication, quantification

Christopher Lucas

human-AI collaboration, social learning, causality, active learning

Ewa Luger

Human-Computer Interaction, ethics, accountability, literacies, policy

Hilary Richardson

theory of mind, perspective taking, social cognition, conceptual development, paediatric fMRI

Holly Branigan

dialogue, human-computer interaction, partner modelling, bilingualism, language development

Jasmin Wertz

mental health, parenting, child development, families, genetics

Karen Gregory

digital labour, platform labour, workers rights, ethnography

Kobi Gal

human-in-the-loop AI, AI for Social Good, AI and Education, Participatory Democracy, Cognitive Modeling

Lynne Craig

interdisciplinary, avatar, virtual human, digital anthropology, business

Martin Corley

human speech, disfluency, pragmatics, deception

Frauke Zeller

Explainable AI/NLP, UX and NLP, Diversity and NLP, Assistive Technologies

Martin Pickering

Psychology, Language, Production, Comprehension, Dialogue

Melissa Terras

Cultural Heritage, Information Science, Machine Learning, Digital Scholarship, Digital Humanities

Nadin Kokciyan

ethical AI, privacy, human-centered AI, multiagent systems, responsible AI

Pavlos Andreadis

Applied AI, Human-AI Process Orchestration (meta-chatbot workflows), Interactive Recommender Systems, GenAI in Education, Embodied/Robotics-Integrated LLMs.

Robin Hill

cognitive science, explainable intelligent behaviour, human-computer/robot interaction, information processing and psycholinguistics, biometrics and biophysical monitoring, [+ Neuropolitics if possible as five themes is too limiting for true interdisciplinarity!]

Sumin Zhao

Multimodality, Discourse Analysis, Computer-mediated Interaction, Social Media Discourses, Visual Communication

Explainable NLP for users in-the-world

Alexandra Birch-Mayne

ethics, safety, finance, reasoning, multilingual

Chris Dent

Energy, infrastructure, government

Hakan Bilen

Vision-language, multi-modal models

Neil Bramley

causal inference, problem solving, behavioural research, program learning, cognitive psychology

Patrick Sturt

Human sentence processing, Psycholinguistics, Eye movements in reading

Shay Cohen

large language models, interpretability, autoformalisation, reasoning

Siddharth N

ML, Explainability, Generative Modelling, NLP, Computer Vision, CogSci

Tadeg Quillien

explanation, causality, counterfactuals, responsibility, computational modeling

Governance & accountability

Anne-Maree Farrell

ethics, law, governance, accountability, NLP, human-AI partnership

Burkhard Schafer

data protection, legal, regulation, legal technology

Clare Llewellyn

AI, Politics, Data, Data Structures, NLP

James Garforth

Critical, Translational, Epistemic Cultures, Ethics Education, Public Understanding

Lachlan Urquhart

Human-Computer Interaction, AI Regulation, Design Methods, Usable Privacy

Li Jingjie

Privacy and Security, Online Safety, Human-centred AI, AI Systems

Michael Barany

history of science, cultural studies, expert institutions, public understanding

Peaks Krafft

Technology and Power, Sociology of AI, History of Computing, History of Cybernetics, History of AI

Shannon Vallor

Responsible AI, AI ethics, trustworthy AI, philosophy of AI

Stuart Anderson

dependability health governance evaluation

Responsible NLP data & models

Adam Lopez

fairness, accountability, transparency, history, climate

Alessandro Suglia

Multimodal Generative AI, Vision and Language Models, Embodied AI, Learning from Interaction, Reinforcement Learning

April Bailey

gender, social cognition, cross-language, sexism, NLP

Bea Alex

Clinical NLP, NLP for low-resource languages, text mining, geo-parsing

Bjorn Ross

Computational social science, natural language processing, social media, AI fairness, ethics

Bonnie Webber

discourse, corpora, corpus-correction, syntax-based-inference

Emily Allaway

Implied meaning, commonsense, natural language reasoning

Fengxiang He

learning theory, value alignment, privacy, game theory

Frank Keller

multimodal NLP, language and vision, computational narrative, cognitive modeling, explainability

Hao Tang

automatic speech recognition, speech processing

Itamar Kastner

linguistics, education, teaching

Korin Richmond

speech technology, articulatory data and speech representations, accent and pronunciation modelling, speech therapy technology

Mirella Lapata

NLP, multimodal learning, generalization, agent-based learning

Peter Bell

spoken language processing, marginalised language communities, dialogue and spoken language understanding

Sharon Goldwater

Model interpretability, Cognitive modelling, Low-resource speech and language processing

Simon King

speech synthesis, speech deepfake detection, voice conversion

Tariq Elahi

Privacy-preserving AI, Surveillance, Censorship, Trustworthy Systems

Tiejun Ma

Financial Sentiment Analysis, NLP for Fintech, LLM for Investment Analysis, Generative AI for Finance

Tj Elmas

social media, misinformation, filter bubbles, political manipulation, bots

Vaishak Belle

reasoning and learning, neuro-symbolic AI, reasoning in large language models, program learning

Walid Magdy

Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing, Low-resource Languages, Bias and Culture in LLMs, Religious AI

Wenda Li

AI for mathematics, Large Language Models, Mechanised Theorem Proving, Formal Verification, Formal Logic

Will Lamb

language modelling, Scottish Gaelic language technology, computational linguistics, speech recognition, crowdsourcing community involvement

Zee Talat

Privacy preservation, critical machine learning, content moderation