I am always on the lookout for excellent visiting/PhD students to work with me on LLM reasoning, safety, interpretability, etc.
- Fully-funded positions for exceptional candidates through KCL scholarships. These funding allocations are for full fees and a living stipend (London weighted) for any nationality.
- PhD Opening: One K-CSC (for Chinese nationals) is available.
Deadline: 1st January 2026.
- PhD Opening: One Position “GenAI for Early Detection of Treatment Resistance and Fair Access to Clozapine in Schizophrenia” through the EPSRC DRIVE-Health CDT is available.
Deadline: 12 January 2026.
- PhD Opening for home-fee student: One Position “From One-Size-Fits-All to Audience-Aware: Personalized Explainable AI for Decision-Making
“ through the STaR-AI CDT is available. Deadline: 2 March 2026.
- Joint PhD Scholarships 2026/27. Partner Universities: The University of Hong Kong/Humboldt University, Berlin/The National University of Singapore/The University of Sao Paulo. Deadline: 5 February 2026
- Alternative fundings.
Current PhD students in KCL NLP Group
- LLM reasoning
- Qinglin Zhu (latent reasoning)
- Zhanghao Hu (RAG)
- Zhenyi Shen (implicit CoT)
- Jiangnan Ye (efficiency, co-supervised with Yulan He)
- Explainable AI
- Jiazheng Li (faithful explanation)
- Hainiu Xu (mechanistic interpretability)
- LLM agent for scientific literature understanding
- Yanzheng Xiang (code generation & diffusion model)
- Italo Da Silva (Hypothesis assessment)