People
Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Postdocs
Verna Dankers
Working with:
Siva Reddy
(Summer 2025)
Works on interpretability and memorization vs generalization
Marius Mosbach
Working with:
Siva Reddy
(March 2024)
Working on analysis, adaptation, and generalization abilities of language models
PhD Students
Tomás Vergara Browne
Advised by:
Prof. Siva Reddy, Dr. Marius Mosbach
(Fall 2025)
Working on reasoning.
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 vision-and-language reasoning, interpretability and evaluation. In my free time I do lots of sports.
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
Ziling Cheng
Advised by:
Jackie Cheung
(May 2022)
Model analysis and interpretability to guide design for reasoning and hallucination.
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
Ada Tur
Advised by:
Siva Reddy
(Summer 2024)
Working on linguistic behaviors in LLMs and AI safety in digital web agents
Interns
Sara Vera Marjanović
Hosted by:
Prof. Siva Reddy, Dr. Karolina Stańczak
(Jan 2025)
I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, with an interest in interpretability within sensitive domains, like fact-checking and social bias.
Hanseok Oh
Hosted by:
Prof. Siva Reddy
(June 2025)
Working on personalized conversational agents, especially in AgenticRAG scenario.
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
Karolina Stanczak
Working with:
Siva Reddy
(Mar 2024)
Working on bias detection, multilinguality, and interpretability.
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
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.
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
Fabian David Schmidt
Hosted by:
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
(Sep 2024)
PhD Candidate at the University of Würzburg working on multilinguality & multimodality
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.