People (original) (raw)
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Facebook CIFAR AI Chair
Adjunct Faculty
Postdocs
Working with: Jackie Cheung (Jan 2024)
Working with: Siva Reddy (March 2024)
Working on analysis, adaptation, and generalization abilities of language models
PhD Students
Advised by: Siva Reddy (Fall 2020)
Interested in knowledge-grounded conversations
Advised by: Siva Reddy (Fall 2024)
Co-advised by Vered Shwartz (UBC)
Advised by: Jackie Cheung (Sep 2019)
Works on factuality/bias in NLG
Advised by: Timothy J. O'Donnell (Fall 2020)
Works on computational phonology
Advised by: Timothy J. O'Donnell (Fall 2018)
Works on computational modelling and sentence processing.
Advised by: Siva Reddy (Summer 2022)
Interested in the abstract semantic structures language models capture.
Advised by: Siva Reddy (September 2024)
I work on building AI that understands and adapts to diverse languages and cultures, making tech more inclusive for everyone.
Co-advised by Dr. Golnoosh Farnadi
Advised by: Siva Reddy (Summer 2021)
I work on vision-and-language reasoning, interpretability and evaluation. In my free time I do lots of sports.
Advised by: David Ifeoluwa Adelani (Fall 2024)
Advised by: Jackie Cheung, Siva Reddy
Advised by: Siva Reddy (Fall 2021)
Working on retrieval and conversational QA
Advised by: Siva Reddy (Fall 2020)
Works on bias/safety in NLP
Advised by: Dzmitry Bahdanau, Siva Reddy (Fall 2022)
Generalization in LLMs, Reasoning using LLMs
Advised by: Jackie Cheung (Winter 2019)
Working on coreference, commonsense knowledge, semantics
Masters Students
Advised by: Jackie Cheung (Fall 2024)
NLP, Pragmatics
Advised by: Jackie Cheung (May 2022)
Model analysis and interpretability to guide design for reasoning and hallucination.
Advised by: Jackie Cheung (AUG-2024)
Research Interests: NLP, Active Learning, Hallucinations
Advised by: Timothy J. O'Donnell (Winter 2020)
Currently working on computational models of pragmatic reasoning.
Advised by: David Adelani (Fall 2024)
Works on Multilingual NLP
Advised by: David Ifeoluwa Adelani (Fall 2024)
Works on RAG, and LLMs with multilingual and minority languages.
Undergraduate Students
Advised by: David Adelani (Jan 2025)
Works on Speech Tasks in multilingual NLP
Advised by: Siva Reddy (Summer 2024)
Working on linguistic behaviors in LLMs and AI safety in digital web agents
Interns
Hosted by: Prof. Siva Reddy, Dr. Marius Mosbach (March 2025)
Working on bias safety, alignment, and interpretability.
Hosted by: Prof. Siva Reddy, Dr. Karolina Stańczak (Jan 2025)
I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, with an interest in interpretability within sensitive domains, like fact-checking and social bias.
Hosted by: Siva Reddy (Mar 2025)
Working on Language Agents
Vivek Verma
Hosted by: David Adelani (Jan 2025)
Multilingual NLP
Research Engineers
Hadia Samil
Advised by: Prof. Siva Reddy (September 2024)
Alumni
Postdocs
Working with: Jackie Cheung (Aug-2022)
Text summarization and low-resource learning
Working with: Timothy J. O'Donnell, Siva Reddy (Winter 2023)
Bridging the gap between AI and cognitive science
➡️ Assistant Professor at HEC Montreal
Working with: Siva Reddy (Mar 2024)
Working on bias detection, multilinguality, and interpretability.
PhD Students
Advised by: Jackie Cheung, Benjamin Fung (Sept. 2017)
Interested in writing style analysis, authorship identification and authorship obfuscation using DL/NLP
➡️ Postdoc at IBM
Advised by: Jackie Cheung
➡️ Assistant Professor at UC Riverside
Advised by: Jackie Cheung
➡️ Assistant Professor at Brock University
Advised by: Jackie Cheung
Works on computational pragmatics and its intersection with NLG and NLU
➡️ Postdoc at MIT
Advised by: Siva Reddy (Fall 2020)
Works on NLP Interpretability
Co-advised by Sarath Chandar
Masters Students
Advised by: Jackie Cheung (Fall 2022)
Works at the intersection of Health and AI
Co-advised by Dan Poenaru from paediatric surgery
Advised by: Siva Reddy, Tim O'Donnell (Jan 2020)
Co-advised by Dzmitry Bahdanau
➡️ PhD at Stanford Linguistics
Advised by: Jackie Cheung (Fall 2022)
FATE + Evaluation metrics in summarization
Advised by: Dr. Siva Reddy (Fall 2021)
Interested in imbuing large language models with world knowledge
➡️ PhD at Polytechnique Montreal
Advised by: Jackie Cheung (Fall 2020)
➡️ PhD @ University of Montreal
Undergraduate Students
Advised by: Siva Reddy (Summer 2022)
Works on interpreting and extracting linguistic representations from large language models.
➡️ PhD at Stanford Linguistics
Advised by: Dr. Siva Reddy (Sep 2021)
Worked on introducing quantifiers in UDepLambda framework which converts dependency trees into lambda calculus forms
Advised by: Siva Reddy (September 2024)
I'm an undergrad CS student at McGill and I'm mostly interested in researching about vision-language models.
Interns
Hosted by: Siva Reddy, Tim O'Donnell (Jan 2022)
Language in math and connecting syntax to semantics
➡️ back to McGill
Hosted by: Siva Reddy, Timothy J. O'Donnell (Fall 2022)
Works on language model probing
➡️ back to McGill
Hosted by: Siva Reddy (May 2021)
➡️ Postdoc at Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Hosted by: Siva Reddy (Feb 2023)
Intern working on language & code generation
Hosted by: Siva Reddy (October 2024)
I'm a master student at Saarland University, my research interests include language modeling and interpretability in multimodal settings
Hosted by: Siva Reddy (Summer 2021)
Works on Semantic Role Labelling
➡️ PhD at University of Edinburgh
Hosted by: David Ifeoluwa Adelani (Sep 2024)
PhD Candidate at the University of Würzburg working on multilinguality & multimodality
Research Engineers
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