2018

05/09/2018 Our paper on e-SNLI: Natural Language Inference with Natural Language Explanations got accepted at NIPS 2018 in Montreal, Canada!
20/08/2018 I am now a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research London.
13/08/2018 I am now a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University College London.
10/08/2018 Our paper on Interpretation of Natural Language Rules in Conversational Machine Reading got accepted at EMNLP 2018 in Brussels, Belgium!
14/07/2018 I co-organized the 2nd Workshop on Neural Abstract Machines & Program Induction (NAMPI) at ICML 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden.
30/05/2018 Invited talk on AI - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly at the Saïd Business School's Oxford Disruptive Tech Week at the University of Oxford, UK.
11/05/2018 Our paper on DiCE: The Infinitely Differentiable Monte Carlo Estimator got accepted at ICML 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden!
30/04/2018 I published a blog post on Einstein Summation (einsum) in Deep Learning.
27/03/2018 Invited talk on Deep Learning with Explanations at the Adaptive Preparation of Information from Heterogeneous Sources (AIPHES) research training group at TU Darmstadt, Germany.
02/03/2018 Invited talk on Deep Learning with Explanations at the Structured and Probabilistic Intelligent Knowledge Engineering (SPIKE) group at Imperial College London, UK.
15/02/2018 Preprint of our paper DiCE: The Infinitely Differentiable Monte-Carlo Estimator is online!
29/01/2018 Our paper on TreeQN and ATreeC: Differentiable Tree-Structured Models for Deep Reinforcement Learning got accepted at ICLR 2018 in Vancouver, Canada!
12/01/2018 Invited speaker at the Alan Turing Institute workshop on Logic and Learning in London, UK.

2017

08/12/2017 I co-organized the 6th NIPS 2017 Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC).
01/11/2017 Preprint of our paper TreeQN and ATreeC: Differentiable Tree Planning for Deep Reinforcement Learning is online!
16/10/2017 I am now a Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science at Jesus College, University of Oxford!
12/10/2017 Invited speaker at the GPU Techonlogy Conference (GTC Europe) in Munich, Germany.
01/10/2017 I am now a Stipendiary Lecturer in Computer Science at Hertford College, University of Oxford!
27/09/2017 I gave a lecture on Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing at the 2nd International Summer School on Data Science (SSDS). Slides available here.
04/09/2017 Our paper on End-to-end Differentiable Proving got accepted for oral presentation (1.2% acceptance rate) at NIPS 2017 in Long Beach, CA!
29/08/2017 Invited talk on End-to-end Differentiable Proving at Google Research in Mountain View, CA.
15/08/2017 I co-organized the 7th Workshop on Statistical Relational AI (StarAI) at UAI 2017 in Sydney, Australia.
26/07/2017 Invited talk on End-to-end Differentiable Proving at DeepMind.
14/06/2017 Invited talk on End-to-end Differentiable Proving at the South England Natural Language Processing Meetup.
07/06/2017 Invited talk on End-to-end Differentiable Proving at the Future of Humanity Institute.
12/06/2017 Paper on Adversarial Sets for Regularising Neural Link Predictors got accepted at UAI 2017 in Sydney, Australia!
06/06/2017 I got interviewed by Matt Gardner and Waleed Ammar on the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence Podcast.
01/06/2017 Pre-print of our paper on End-to-end Differentiable Proving is online!
22/05/2017 Invited talk on End-to-end Differentiable Proving at the London Machine Learning Meetup.
13/05/2017 Paper on Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter got accepted at ICML 2017 in Sydney, Australia!
02/05/2017 I joined the Whiteson Research Lab at University of Oxford as postdoctoral researcher.
10/04/2017 I was awarded a Google PhD Fellowship in Natural Language Processing!
26/03/2017 Invited talk on "Deep Prolog: End-to-end Differentiable Proving in Knowledge Bases" at the 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Theorem Proving in Obergurgl, Austria.
06/02/2017 Frustratingly Short Attention Spans in Neural Language Modeling got accepted as conference paper at ICLR 2017 in Toulon, France!

2016

10/12/2016 I co-organized the 1st Workshop on Neural Abstract Machines & Program Induction (NAMPI) at NIPS 2016 in Barcelona, Spain.
16/11/2016 Invited talk on "What Can Deep Learning Learn from Symbolic Inference?" at Imperial College London.
01/11/2016 Paper on emoji2vec: Learning Emoji Representations from their Description wins Best Paper Award at the EMNLP 2016 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP)!
30/07/2016 Papers on Lifted Rule Injection for Relation Embeddings and Stance Detection with Bidirectional Conditional Encoding got accepted at EMNLP 2016!
17/06/2016 I co-organized the 5th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) at NAACL 2016 in San Diego, California.
10/06/2016 Invited talk at the University of Cambridge Natural Language and Information Processing Seminar Series.
18/04/2016 Application note on SETH got accepted at Bioinformatics.
13/04/2016 Guest lecture on deep learning for natural language processing at General Assembly's data science course in London.
04/04/2016 Papers on Learning Knowledge Base Inference with Neural Theorem Provers and Regularizing Relation Representations by First-order Implications got accepted at AKBC 2016!
03/02/2016 Reasoning about Entailment with Neural Attention got accepted as conference paper at ICLR 2016 in Puerto Rico!
Reasoning about Entailment with Neural Attention won the best poster award (out of 10) at UCL's Launch of the GPU Developers Forum sponsored by NVIDIA.
14/01/2016 Invited talk on Reasoning about Entailment with Neural Attention at the Natural Language Processing Group Seminar in Sheffield.

2015

18/12/2015 Invited talk on Reasoning about Entailment with Neural Attention at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Berlin.
25/11/2015 Invited talk on Reasoning about Entailment with Neural Attention at the Alan Turing Institute Deep Learning Open Workshop in Edinburgh.

Contact

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