Current

PhD

• Trang Pham [2025–], Monash University
  Trang works on Diagnostic Reasoning
• Ramya Keerthy Thatikonda [2023–], Monash University
  Ramya works on Logical Reasoning with LLMs
• [Hao Yang] [2023–], Monash University
  Hao works on Safety of Multimodal Foundation Models
• Minghan Wang [2023–], Monash University
  Minghan works on Translation with LLMs
• Jiuzhou Han [Under Examination], Monash University
  Thesis: Enhancing Inference-Time Reliability of Large Language Models
• Dongwon (Kelvin) Ryu [Writing Thesis], Monash University
  Kelvin works on Text-based interactive games

MSc

• Xuanhao Gu [2026], UCL — Autoformalisation
• Thang Vu [2026], UCL — Text-to-SQL Translation
• Niall Dalton [2026], UCL — Mechanical and Algorithmic State of Reasoning
• Piotr Wilam [2026], UCL — Disentangling the Roles of Task, Language, and Model
• Mikhail Kim [2026], UCL — Composable Adapters

Alumni

PhD

• Yinhong Liu [PhD, 2026], University of Cambridge (with Nigel Collier)
  Thesis: Advancing Text Evaluation in the Era of LLMs: Toward Robust Metrics, Consistency, and Human Alignment
• Yi Zhu [PhD, 2025], University of Cambridge (with Anna Korhonen, Ivan Vulić) → Research Scientist, RekaAI
  Thesis: Multi-Lingual Learning with Few Labels
• Jinming (Michelle) Zhao [PhD, 2024], Monash University (with Reza Haffari) → Applied Scientist, Amazon AGI
  Thesis: Advancing Data-Constrained Spoken Language Translation
• Victor Prokhorov [PhD, 2021], University of Cambridge (with Nigel Collier) → Research Scientist, Huawei
  Thesis: Injecting Inductive Biases into Distributed Representations of Text

MSc and Honours

• Dhruv Anand [MSc, 2025], Monash University
  Thesis: Cube Bench: A Benchmark for Spatial Visual Reasoning in MLLMs
• James Garnham [Honours, 2025], Monash University
  Thesis: Could language models win the International Linguistics Olympiad?
• Alan Tseng [MSc, 2025], Monash University
  Thesis: AI Evaluation Benchmarks for Australian Contract Law
• Jack Pham [Honours, 2025], Monash University → PhD at Macquarie University
  Thesis: Could LLMs self-paraphrasing improve Mathematical Reasoning performance?
• Minh (Hieu) Nguyen [MSc, 2024], Monash University → PhD at Monash
  Thesis: One STEP at a time: Language Agents are Stepwise Planners 🏆 Winner of Monash Dux Award 2025
• Long Hei Matthew Lam [MSc, 2024], Monash University → Applied Scientist, OpenStream AI
  Thesis: A Closer Look at Logical Reasoning with LLMs: The Choice of Tool Matters 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award at ALTA 2024
• Adrian Theuma [MSc, 2023], Monash University
  Thesis: Equipping Language Models with Tool Use Capability for Tabular Data Analysis in Finance
• Ignatius Ting [MSc, 2023], Monash University
  Thesis: A Novel Biomedical Graph-Text Dataset and Its applications
• Xinyi (Tina) Li [Honours, 2022], Monash University
  Thesis: In-Context Knowledge Elicitation from Large Language Models
• Hao Yang [MSc, 2022], Monash University → PhD at Monash University
  Thesis: Self-supervised Rewiring of Pre-trained Speech Encoders
• Jirarote Jirasirikul [MSc, 2021], Monash University
  Thesis: Fine-tuning Pretrained Language Models for Biomedical Tasks
• Aiswarya Kaladharan [MSc, 2020], University College London (UCL)
  Thesis: Privacy Preserving Neural Representation for Speech Audio
• Lan Zhang [MSc, 2020], University College London (UCL) → PhD at University of Manchester
  Thesis: Understanding the Latent Space in Variational Autoencoders
• Lei Yang [MSc, 2020], University College London (UCL)
  Thesis: Generating Recipes with Deep Neural Models