About me
I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, where I work with the UCREL NLP Group, the Data Science Institute, and Security Lancaster.
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML), with a particular interest in developing language technologies that are accessible, reliable, safe, and beneficial to society. My work primarily focuses on enhancing communication in two interconnected areas:
Human–Human Communication: My research includes machine translation, text summarisation, text simplification, and related technologies that make information more accessible across languages and communities. I also investigate online safety through offensive language detection, hate speech detection, and misinformation detection, with the aim of promoting safer communication.
Human–AI Communication: I am interested in understanding and improving how people interact with language technologies, particularly the reliability, safety, and usefulness of AI-generated outputs. My work includes machine translation quality estimation, language model evaluation, and approaches to identifying and mitigating harmful or unsafe interactions with AI systems.
In these areas, I am interested in applying NLP and Machine Learning to interdisciplinary challenges, particularly in cybersecurity, law, history, and education. Across my research, I place particular emphasis on multilingual and low-resource NLP, and the development of open-access datasets, benchmarks, and models that support inclusive and reproducible research.
