I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, and a member of the Cardiff NLP group. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the same group, working with Prof Jose Camacho-Collados. I received my PhD in Natural Language Processing from the University of Liverpool, advised by Prof Danushka Bollegala and Prof Shan Luo, and my MSc in Big Data and High Performance Computing, also from Liverpool.

My research focuses on responsible AI — ethics, social bias and fairness in NLP — and on lexical semantics. More broadly, I am interested in natural language understanding, including language representation learning, multimodality, commonsense reasoning, multilingual and multicultural NLP, text generation, and the interpretability and analysis of language models.

🔥 Recent News

  • 09/2026:  🎉 One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2026: “Learning to Search, Searching to Learn: A Closed-Loop Framework for Large-Scale Vehicle Routing”.
  • 09/2026:  🎉 One paper accepted at the AACL 2026 main conference: “WiC is Not WSD: A Study on LLMs and Lexical Ambiguity Resolution”.
  • 09/2026:  🎉 One paper accepted at Findings of EMNLP 2026: “Localize-Then-Decide Guarantees for LLM Judgments”.
  • 04/01/2026:  🎉 Two papers accepted at the EACL 2026 main conference.
  • 20/08/2025:  🎉 Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2025 (one main conference, one Findings).
  • 30/07/2025:  🏆 Our paper “BRIGHTER: Bridging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages” won the Best Resource Paper Award at ACL 2025.

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