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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Dr. Ken Yano Research staff (AIRC, Japan and NaCTeM) Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Machine Learning |
yano.ken at aist.go.jp |
PhD Students
Name & Research Details | Contact | |
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Mr. Jiarun Cao Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co-supervisors: Professor Niels Peek and Professor Andrew Renehan Research Topic: Neural information extraction for literature-based discovery of cancer mechanisms Funding Source: CRUK ICED award (MERCADO) studentship |
jiarun.cao at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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Mr. Panagiotis Georgiadis Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co-supervisor: Professor Junichi Tsujii Research Topic: Neural event extraction from scientific discourse Funding Source: Industrial CASE-award (EPSRC) in collaboration with Atypon |
panagiotis.georgiadis-2 at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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Ms. Yan Leng Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co-supervisor: Professor Bernard Keavney Research Topic:TBD |
yan.leng at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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Mr. Boyang Liu Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Argument Mining from Scientific Literature |
boyang.liu-2 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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Mr. Zheheng Luo Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Text Summarization, Topic Modelling |
zheheng.luo at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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Mr. Jake Vasilakes Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Context-aware information extraction from scientific text Funding Source: President's Doctoral Scholar Award |
jake.vasilakes at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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Mr. Beiyu Xu Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Text mining for mental health |
beiyu.xu at postgrad.manchester.ac.uk |
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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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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 |
Alumni
Name | Year Graduated | Degree | Current Position |
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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 | |
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 |
Featured News
- 24-month postdoctoral research position in Athens, Greece
- PhD opportunity in collaboration with Athens Univ. of Economics and Business
- iCASE EPSRC funded PhD- multimodal NLP - UoM & BAE - Application deadline 30th April 2024
- Invited talk at the 8th Annual Women in Data Science Event at the American University of Beirut
- Invited talk at the 2nd Symposium on NLP for Social Good (NSG), University of Liverpool
- CFP: BIONLP 2024 and Shared Tasks @ ACL 2024
- Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024
Other News & Events
- Invited talk at Annual Meeting of the Danish Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- New review article on emotion detection for misinformation
- BioNLP 2024 accepted as workshop at ACL 2024
- Junichi Tsujii awarded Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
- Chinese Government AwardAward for PhD student Tianlin Zhang