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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
Dr. Ken Yano Research staff (AIRC, Japan and NaCTeM) Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Machine Learning	yano.ken at aist.go.jp

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
Dr. Efstathia Soufleri Archimedes, Athens, Greece LLMs for Mental Health	e.soufleri at athenarc.gr
Dr. Qianqian Xie Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale University, USA	xqq.sincere at gmail.com

PhD Students

Name & Research Details	Contact
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
Ms. Yan Leng Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co-supervisor: Professor Bernard Keavney Research Topic:TBD	yan.leng at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Mr. Boyang Liu Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Argument Mining from Scientific Literature	boyang.liu-2 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
Mr. Zheheng Luo Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Text Summarization, Topic Modelling	zheheng.luo at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Mr. Beiyu Xu Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Text mining for mental health	beiyu.xu at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
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
Mr. Chenhan Yuan Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: TBD Funding Source: University of Manchester Computer Science Department Scholarship	chenhan.yuan at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Ms. Xin Zhang Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: TBD	xin.zhang-41 at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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