Keynotes and Invited Academic/Research Talks
[2024] Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies: “Every Time We Hire an LLM, the Reasoning Performance of the Linguists Goes Up”
[2024] Invited Speaker, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA: “Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models: Do they pose an existential threat?”
[2024] Invited Speaker, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
[2024] Invited Talk, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany): “Construction Grammar, Multiword Expressions and Generalisation in LLMs”
[2024] Invited Talk, University of Cardiff (UK)
[2024] Invited Talk, Queen Mary University of London (UK)
[2024] Invited Talk, London Machine Learning Meetup (Europe's largest ML community)
[2021, Zurich] Invited talk at Modelling Constructional Variation and Change, University of Zurich: BERT “knows” Construction Grammar: Evidence and Implications.
[2019] Talk at Alan Turing Institute, Natural Language Processing Interest Group: Cost-Sensitive BERT for Generalisable Sentence Classification with Imbalanced Data.
Conference Tutorials and Summer School
Tutorials: Delivered technical tutorials at COLING 2022, LREC 2022, and COLING 2025
[2025] Summer School Instruction: Delivered a two-day hands-on workshop on Probing Large Language Models... at the MEDAL Summer School (2025, University of Birmingham)
University, Public, and Industry Engagement Talks
[2025] Invited Talk, Microsoft Cambridge (CMD Lab): "Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models: Do they pose an existential threat and what does it mean for deployment?"
[2025] University of Bath offer holders support seminar
[2024] Invited Talk, CGI (UK): Presented insights on generative AI to a national consultancy group
[2024] Invited Research Presentation, University of Bath's "Impact in Action: How Bath research is driving positive digital transformation" (London, Nov 2024)
[2024] Panelist/Contributor, Minerva Lecture Series: "What does Artificial Intelligence mean for Bath?"
[2024] Presentation, Department of Computer Science's AI Talks Series
[2024] Guest Lecture, Executive MBA (EMBA) on Generative AI
[2024] Delivered “Taster” lectures to University of Bath offer holders
[2024] Public Talk, Bath CSS organised pub talk: "Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models: Do they pose an existential threat?"
[2023] Presenter, Vice Chancellor's Research Day - University of Bath
[2019] Talk on autonomous cars to the general public as part of the Pint of Science initiative.
Staff Development and Internal Talks
[2025] Presentation, Al and Assessment Task and Finish Group: Talk on Reasoning models such as DeepSeek R1
[2024] Invited Presentation, University Education Advisory Board: Overview of Generative AI and its application to education
[2023] Presentation, Department Teaching Away Day: Talk on Generative AI