Academic Service & Record
University of Sheffield · School of Computer Science
Teaching
Lecturer COM1005· Machines and Intelligence Undergraduate module, University of Sheffield
Module Leader COM6115· Text Processing postgraduate module, University of Sheffield
Academic Reviewing
Programme committee member and reviewer for the following venues:
NLP / AI Conferences
ACL EMNLP NAACL EACL NLPCC (AC) COLM
Information Retrieval
SIGIR CIKM (SPC) WWW ECIR WSDM
Journals
ACM TOIS IEEE TKDE Information Processing & Management PLOS Digital Health Frontiers in Psychiatry
Awards & Honours
Going Global Partnerships UK-Spain Springboard Programme British Council · £10,000 Awarded to support collaboration with the IRlab at University of A Coruña.
Google Research Workshop Grant Google · $20,000 Co-recipient with Prof. Emine Yilmaz (UCL). Awarded for the workshop on Action, Task and User Journey, supporting research on task-oriented dialogue systems. Outcomes published at AAAI 2023 and EMNLP 2023.
Gold Medal · ACM-ICPC Provincial Contest ACM-ICPC Top-ranked team in the provincial ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Invited Talks
From Language Modelling to Converational AI for Mental Health Support AI for Health in Ghana Workshop/Summer School · Accra, Ghana
Adaptive RAG and Beyond: Towards Proactive Conversational Information Seeking ESSIR 2025 summer school · Wolverhampton, UK
Event Organisation
eRisk: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet CLEF 2025-2026 · Madrid, Spain (2025) Jena, Germany (2026) Act as the lead organiser of the conversational depression detection task.
ProActLLM: Proactive Conversational Information Seeking with Large Language Models CIKM 2025 · Seoul, South Korea Act as the lead organiser to group research contributions towards proactive AI.
Second Workshop on Multimodal AI Sheffield, UK Collaborate with Professor Haiping Lu and collegues at University of Sheffield for workshop organisation.