Short biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Computing Science at the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling in Scotland as a member of Data Science and Intelligent Systems Research Group.
Research interests
I work on problems in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, focusing on learning in low-resource settings, including resource-scarce languages and child language acquisition. My research interests include linguistic aspects of language, such as morphology and syntax, as well as practical applications, including domain adaptation of language models for real-world tasks.
Latest News
Our EU grant for the BioAgora project has been funded to support the development of the Methodological Infrastructure of the Future Science Service for Biodiversity. (EUR 165K) (December 2025)
Our two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership has been funded to develop an AI-powered forensic accounting tool to forecast economic losses in commercial litigation. (£250K) (November, 2025)
- I gave a lecture on Introduction to Large Language Models at the Summer School in Deep Learning and LLMs in September, 2025.
- I gave a tutorial on Small Language Models at RANLP 2025 in September, 2025.
- I have been appointed Senior Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing. (July, 2024)
- Our paper titled: "Forged-GAN-BERT: Authorship Attribution for LLM-Generated Forged Novels" has been accepted to appear in EACL 2024. (March, 2024)
- I gave a lecture on Large Language Models at Sabanci University Science Academy Machine Learning Summer School. (June, 2023)
- We organised the 8th Representation Learning for NLP (Repl4NLP) along with ACL 2023! (July, 2023)
- My project titled "Joint learning of morphology and syntax in Turkish" received TUBITAK Project Performance Award under grant 115E464. (January, 2022)
Recent Professional Activities
The Second International Workshop on Eye-Tracking Resources and Evaluation for Human-Aligned NLP ( Gaze4NLP) Workshop was organised under LREC 2026.
The first Gaze4NLP Workshop was organised under RANLP 2025.
The 8th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (Repl4NLP) at ACL 2023 - organising committee
Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE) (Associate Editor)
Senior Associate Editor on ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
Full list of professional activities here.
Supervision
If you are interested in working with me as a MSc or PhD student and if you think that your interests match mine, please feel free to contact me.
Full list of supervised dissertations.
Teaching
I am teaching Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Processing and Programming and User Interface Design in Spring 2026.
Full list of past lectures.
Publications
Full list of publications here.
Last modified: 24th June, 2026
