Current
PhD
- Trang Pham [2025–], Monash University (Co-Supervisor, with Yasmeen George) Diagnostic Reasoning
- Ramya Keerthy Thatikonda [2023–], Monash University (Main Supervisor, with Wray Buntine) Reasoning with LLMs
- Hao Yang [2023–], Monash University (Co-Supervisor, with Reza Haffari, Lizhen Qu) Safety of Multimodal Foundation Models
- Minghan Wang [2023–], Monash University (Co-Supervisor, with Reza Haffari, Trang Vu) Translation with LLMs
- Jiuzhou Han [2023–], Monash University (Main Supervisor, with Wray Buntine) Towards Enhancing Inference-Time Reliability of Large Language Models
- Dongwon (Kelvin) Ryu [2021–], Monash University (Main Supervisor, with Reza Haffari, Meng Fang) Text-based interactive games
MSc
- 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 → Research Scientist, RekaAI (with Anna Korhonen, Ivan Vulić) Thesis: Multi-Lingual Learning with Few Labels
- Jinming (Michelle) Zhao [PhD, 2024], Monash University → Applied Scientist, Amazon AGI (with Reza Haffari) Thesis: Advancing Data-Constrained Spoken Language Translation
- Victor Prokhorov [PhD, 2021], University of Cambridge → Research Scientist, Huawei (with Nigel Collier) 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 U. 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 U. 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
