Team & Collaborators

Collaborators

I am very grateful to a number of academics, researchers and PhD students whom I am currently working with and/or previously worked with:

Students

I have had the pleasure of supervising the following students for their research projects!

MPhil Advanced Computer Science (ACS)/Part III CST
  • Bianca-Mihaela Ganescu – my MPhil student, completed a thesis on Small Multimodal (Vision-Language Models) for the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science. Co-supervised with Dr Andrew Caines and Prof Paula Buttery.
Undergraduate
  • Ellie Polyakova Reed (ep757), Shivan Arora (sa2200)
  • Jacy To (cyt33)
  • Ali Kheirkhah (PicoLM Research Intern, co-supervised by Richard Diehl Martinez)

Supervised Theses and Dissertations

“Integrating Cognitively-Inspired Selective Attention Cues in Small Vision-Language Models”. 2025. Bianca Ganescu, MPhil Advanced Computer Science Thesis.

Evaluating Typological Effects of L2 English in Language Model Benchmarks (Ellie P. Reed, 2025, Supervised UROP Report)

Controlled Text Generation: a teacher-student model paradigm for CEFR-levelled complexity control (Shivan Arora, 2025, Supervised UROP Report)