About

I am a PhD student at the UCL Machine Reading group under the supervision of Pontus Stenetorp and Sebastian Riedel. I have a Masters degree from the UCL Department of Computer Science and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Malta. Previously, I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Bloomsbury AI as well as other start-ups and corporates across the artificial intelligence, automotive, digital and financial industries.

My current research focuses on natural language processing, with particular interest in question answering and machine reasoning.

News

17/06/2019	Presented Asking Harder Questions at the UCL NLP Inauguration Event followed by a poster session on ShARC.
15/05/2019	Delivered a two-part workshop titled Overview of NLP to this year’s UCL MSc Business Analytics cohort.
15/04/2019	Co-presented Interpretation of Natural Language Rules in Conversational Machine Reading at the South England Natural Language Processing (SENLP) meetup.
12/04/2019	Led a workshop titled Introduction to Python and Machine Learning at the Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS) in Oxford.
14/01/2019	I have started a PhD at UCL under the guidance of Pontus Stenetorp and Sebastian Riedel.
03/11/2018	Presented Interpretation of Natural Language Rules in Conversational Machine Reading at EMNLP together with Patrick Lewis and other co-authors.
25/10/2018	The ShARC dataset from our EMNLP ‘18 paper is now live!
31/08/2018	Bloomsbury AI has joined Facebook to strengthen its efforts in natural language processing research.
22/08/2018	Cape (open source) is the new state-of-the-art for open-domain question answering on TriviaQA.
17/08/2018	Our large-scale question answering system, Cape, is now available open source!
10/08/2018	Interpretation of Natural Language Rules in Conversational Machine Reading has been accepted at EMNLP.
25/04/2018	We’ve been accepted into the Allen & Overy Fuse accelerator programme.