
People
Faculty



Adjunct Faculty

Postdocs



Marius Mosbach
Working with:
Siva Reddy
(March 2024)
Working on analysis, adaptation, and generalization abilities of language models

Karolina Stanczak
Working with:
Siva Reddy
(Mar 2024)
Working on bias detection, multilinguality, and interpretability.
PhD Students








Jacob Louis Hoover
Advised by:
Timothy J. O'Donnell
(Fall 2018)
Works on computational modelling and sentence processing.

Gaurav Kamath
Advised by:
Siva Reddy
(Summer 2022)
Interested in the abstract semantic structures language models capture.

Aditi Khandelwal
Advised by:
Siva Reddy
(September 2024)
I work on building AI that understands and adapts to diverse languages and cultures, making tech more inclusive for everyone.
Co-advised by Dr. Golnoosh Farnadi

Benno Krojer
Advised by:
Siva Reddy
(Summer 2021)
I work on language grounding and like Ultimate Frisbee






Arkil Patel
Advised by:
Dzmitry Bahdanau, Siva Reddy
(Fall 2022)
Generalization in LLMs, Reasoning using LLMs


Ian Porada
Advised by:
Jackie Cheung
(Winter 2019)
Working on coreference, commonsense knowledge, semantics
Masters Students


Lorenzo Flores
Advised by:
Jackie Cheung
(AUG-2024)
Research Interests: NLP, Active Learning, Hallucinations

Amirhossein Kazemnejad
Advised by:
Siva Reddy
(Jan 2021)
Working on RL finetuning and reasoning of LLMs

Ben LeBrun
Advised by:
Timothy J. O'Donnell
(Winter 2020)
Currently working on computational models of pragmatic reasoning.


Hao Yu
Advised by:
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
(Fall 2024)
Works on RAG, and LLMs with multilingual and minority languages.
Undergraduate Students


Nooshin Soheililangroodi
Advised by:
Siva Reddy
(September 2024)
I'm an undergrad CS student at McGill and I'm mostly interested in researching about vision-language models.

Ada Tur
Advised by:
Siva Reddy
(Summer 2024)
Working on linguistic behaviors in LLMs and AI safety in digital web agents
Interns


Fabian David Schmidt
Hosted by:
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
(Sep 2024)
PhD Candidate at the University of Würzburg working on multilinguality & multimodality

Research Engineers

Alumni
Postdocs

Rahul Aralikatte
Working with:
Jackie Cheung
(Aug-2022)
Text summarization and low-resource learning


Eva Portelance
Working with:
Timothy J. O'Donnell, Siva Reddy
(Winter 2023)
Bridging the gap between AI and cognitive science
➡️ Assistant Professor at HEC Montreal
PhD Students

Malik H. Altakrori
Advised by:
Jackie Cheung, Benjamin Fung
(Sept. 2017)
Interested in writing style analysis, authorship identification and authorship obfuscation using DL/NLP
➡️ Postdoc at IBM





Jad Kabbara
Advised by:
Jackie Cheung
Works on computational pragmatics and its intersection with NLG and NLU
➡️ Postdoc at MIT

Andreas Madsen
Advised by:
Siva Reddy
(Fall 2020)
Works on NLP Interpretability
Co-advised by Sarath Chandar
Masters Students


Aylin Erman
Advised by:
Jackie Cheung
(Fall 2022)
Works at the intersection of Health and AI
Co-advised by Dan Poenaru from paediatric surgery


Emily Goodwin
Advised by:
Siva Reddy, Tim O'Donnell
(Jan 2020)
Co-advised by Dzmitry Bahdanau
➡️ PhD at Stanford Linguistics



Aristides Milios
Advised by:
Dr. Siva Reddy
(Fall 2021)
Interested in imbuing large language models with world knowledge
➡️ PhD at Polytechnique Montreal


Undergraduate Students

Jasper Jian
Advised by:
Siva Reddy
(Summer 2022)
Works on interpreting and extracting linguistic representations from large language models.
➡️ PhD at Stanford Linguistics

Neshma Metri
Advised by:
Dr. Siva Reddy
(Sep 2021)
Worked on introducing quantifiers in UDepLambda framework which converts dependency trees into lambda calculus forms


Interns

Laurestine Bradford
Hosted by:
Siva Reddy, Tim O'Donnell
(Jan 2022)
Language in math and connecting syntax to semantics
➡️ back to McGill


Xuanda Chen
Hosted by:
Siva Reddy, Timothy J. O'Donnell
(Fall 2022)
Works on language model probing
➡️ back to McGill




Aravind Krishnan
Hosted by:
Siva Reddy
(October 2024)
I'm a master student at Saarland University, my research interests include language modeling and interpretability in multimodal settings

Sivan Milton
Hosted by:
Siva Reddy
(Summer 2021)
Works on Semantic Role Labelling
➡️ PhD at University of Edinburgh

Research Engineers
Updating the website
If you are part of the McGill NLP group (i.e., advised by one of the faculty members), please head to the GitHub repository, where you will find instructions on adding your publications, creating/updating your profile, updating other parts of the website, etc.