Dr Helen Yannakoudakis
Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing
Research interests
- Computer science
Biography
Helen Yannakoudakis is a Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing in the Department of Informatics at King's College London. Helen is working on machine learning for natural language processing with a focus on few-shot learning, meta-learning, transfer and multi-task learning, lifelong learning, multilingual NLP, and societal and health applications (e.g. automated language teaching and assessment, abusive language and hate speech detection, misinformation, emotion and mental health detection).
Helen is a Turing Fellow and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has received funding awards from both industry and academia, has served as a keynote speaker and a panelist, and has won international competitions such as the NeurIPS 2020 Hateful Memes Challenge. Among others, she has served as an Area Chair for ACL, NeurIPS, AAAI and ICLR.
Helen holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge.
Research Interests
- Natural language processing
- Machine learning
Further information
Research
Natural Language Processing
The Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at KCL is comprised of PhD and postdoctoral students, professors and others who are interested in solving computational problems related to the understanding of human language
Human Centred Computing Research
The group is concerned with the design, development and evaluation of human computer systems.
Computing Education Research Centre (CERC)
The Computing Education Research Centre at King's College London carries out research, develops tools, conducts studies, creates pedagogy, and supervises PhD projects related to computer science education.
News
King's AI researchers appointed as Turing Fellows to tackle societal challenges
Three King's academics from the Department of Informatics have been named as Turing Fellows for 2024-25
Making machines better learners
Professor Helen Yannakoudakis from the Department of Informatics is working on the next generation of machine learning models for natural language processing...
King's success in hateful memes challenge
King’s Lecturer in Computer Science, Dr Helen Yannakoudakis, was part of a team that enjoyed success in Facebook AI’s ‘Hateful Memes Challenge’ competition.
Events
Turing @ King's
Meet the new Turing Fellows from King’s, explore opportunities offered by The Alan Turing Institute, and connect with researchers across King’s who have taken...
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Research
Natural Language Processing
The Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at KCL is comprised of PhD and postdoctoral students, professors and others who are interested in solving computational problems related to the understanding of human language
Human Centred Computing Research
The group is concerned with the design, development and evaluation of human computer systems.
Computing Education Research Centre (CERC)
The Computing Education Research Centre at King's College London carries out research, develops tools, conducts studies, creates pedagogy, and supervises PhD projects related to computer science education.
News
King's AI researchers appointed as Turing Fellows to tackle societal challenges
Three King's academics from the Department of Informatics have been named as Turing Fellows for 2024-25
Making machines better learners
Professor Helen Yannakoudakis from the Department of Informatics is working on the next generation of machine learning models for natural language processing...
King's success in hateful memes challenge
King’s Lecturer in Computer Science, Dr Helen Yannakoudakis, was part of a team that enjoyed success in Facebook AI’s ‘Hateful Memes Challenge’ competition.
Events
Turing @ King's
Meet the new Turing Fellows from King’s, explore opportunities offered by The Alan Turing Institute, and connect with researchers across King’s who have taken...
Please note: this event has passed.