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)
  • AI for science
    • Yanzheng Xiang (code generation & diffusion model)
    • Italo Da Silva (Hypothesis assessment)

Research Master Student

  • Yujing Wang (Buaa Msc)
  • Lakshmipriya Ragupathi (KCL MSc)
  • Yu Tian (Visiting student from Beijing Jiaotong University)

Master Thesis

  • Five projects in retrieval-based QA (2025-2026)