Supervision

Present

• Shuhe Wang (2025)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Ed Hovy
• Anudeex Shetty (2025)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Qiongkai Xu and Olya Ohrimenko
• Thinh Truong (2025)
  • Postdoc; co-supervised with Jianzhong Qi
• Shengxiang Gao (2025)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Jianzhong Qi
• Chris Guest (2024)
  • MPhil; co-supervised with Ekaterina Vylomova
• Yanbei Jiang (2024)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Kris Ehinger
• Wenzheng Du (2024)
  • Masters
• Kemal Kurniawan (2023)
  • Postdoc; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin
• Patrick Bowers (2023)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Dani Tomlin (Audiology and Speech Pathology), Kelley Graydon (Audiology and Speech Pathology) and Tracii Ryan (Education)
• Ming-bin (Bryan) Chen (2023)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Lea Frermann
• Rui Xing (2022)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin
• Rena Gao (2021)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Carsten Roever (Languages and Linguistics)
• Miao Li (2020)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Ed Hovy

Past

• Toby Simonds (2024—2024)
  • Bachelor; co-supervised with Kemal Kurniawan
• Anudeex Shetty (2024—2024)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Qiongkai Xu
• Zhou Peng (2024—2024)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Qiongkai Xu
  • Currently a data scientist intern at Traffyk.ai
• Carolyn Hicks (2023—2024)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Kathryn Davidson (Architecture, Building and Planning)
• Archit Aggarwal (2023—2024)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Christine de Kock
• Chao Sun (2023—2023)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Bowei Zou (A*STAR Singapore)
• Kaijin Zhang (2023—2023)
  • Masters
  • Currently an AI engineer at ZTE
• Yanbei Jiang (2023—2023)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Kris Ehinger
• Andrew Naughton (2022—2023)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Lea Frermann
  • Currently a software engineer at Airwallex
• Zixun Wu (2021—2022)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Kris Ehinger
• Erya Wen (2021—2022)
  • Masters
  • Currently at Telstra
• Mulin Shi (2021—2021)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Lea Frermann
  • Currently an NLP engineer at Pinduoduo
• Jianing Yang (2020—2020)
  • Masters
• Andrew Shen (2021—2021)
  • Bachelor; co-supervised with Fajri Koto and Tim Baldwin
• Yi Li (2020—2021)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Mel Mistica
• An Nguyen (2020—2021)
  • Masters
  • Currently a software engineer at Canva, Sydney
• Rongxin Zhu (2020—2025)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Jiangzhong Qi
  • Thesis: On Disentanglement and Factual Consistency in Automatic Dialogue Summarisation
  • Currently a senior applied scientist at Oracle (Melbourne)
• Chaoxian Zhou (2020—2021)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Daniel Beck
  • Currently an AI engineer at Baidu
• Hualong Deng (2020—2021)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Daniel Beck
• Lin Tian (2020—2024)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Jenny Zhang (RMIT)
  • Thesis: Adaptable Transfer Learning Models for Online Misinformation Detection
  • Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Technology Sydney
• Takashi Wada (2020—2024)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin
  • Thesis: Lexical Semantics of the Long Tail
  • Currently a machine learning researcher at ZOZO
• Yulia Otmakhova (2020—2024)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Karin Verspoor and Tim Baldwin
  • Thesis: Multi-document Summarisation Supporting Clinical Evidence Review
  • Currently a research fellow at The University of Melbourne
• Zhuohan Xie (2020—2024)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Trevor Cohn
  • Thesis: Automatic Story Generation and Evaluation
  • Currently a postdoctoral fellow at MBZUAI
• Shiquan Yang (2019—2023)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Sarah Erfani
  • Thesis: Towards Multimodal, Interpretable and Robust Task-Oriented Dialogue Modeling
  • Currently an AI engineer at Oracle (Melbourne)
• Huidu Lu (2019—2020)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Lachlan Andrew
  • Currently a software engineer at Shopee, Shenzhen China
• Rongxiao Liu (2019—2019)
  • Masters
• Han Liu (2019—2023)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Richard Sinnott
• Zhuohan Xie (2019—2019)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Trevor Cohn
• Fajri (2018—2022)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin
  • Thesis: From Discourse and Keyphrases, to Language Modeling in Automatic Summarization
  • Currently an Assistant Professor at MBZUAI
• Shraey Bhatia (2017—2024)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin
  • Thesis: Detection and Analysis of Climate Change Scepticism
  • Currently the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of startup Leaping AI
• Steven Xu (2017—2017)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin
• Shiwei Zhang (2016—2021)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Jenny Zhang (RMIT), Jeffrey Chan (RMIT) and Cecile Paris (CSIRO)
  • Thesis: Mining user-generated texts via neural classification
  • Currently an engineer at MagicLight AI
• Adel Foda (2016—2018)
  • PhD; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin
• Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc (2016—2017)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin
• Shraey Bhatia (2015—2017)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin
• Andrew Bennett (2014—2016)
  • Masters; co-supervised with Tim Baldwin