Research Showcase

A concise overview of the strongest research outputs — for visitors new to the work. Every item links to its authoritative record; nothing here replaces the peer-reviewed source.

Selected publications

ADAPT–MTU HAI at IWSLT2026: Robust Cascaded Speech Translation for Bhojpuri–Hindi and Irish–English — Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2026), 2026
PTEB: Towards Robust Text Embedding Evaluation via Stochastic Paraphrasing at Evaluation Time with LLMs — Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026), Long Papers, 2026
Enhancing Dialectal Arabic Intent Detection through Cross-Dialect Multilingual Input Augmentation — Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4), 2025
Rethinking Sign Language Translation: The Impact of Signer Dependence on Model Evaluation — Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025
GASE: Generatively Augmented Sentence Encoding — Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025
ADAPT–MTU HAI at QIAS2025: Dual-Expert LLM Fine-Tuning and Constrained Decoding for Arabic Islamic Inheritance Reasoning — Proceedings of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks, 2025

Research programmes

Rinn Artificial Intelligence — Institutional Co-Lead at MTU, Deputy Theme Lead, PI. Details →
ADAPT Centre — PI and MTU Lead.
Human-Centred AI Research Group — Founder and Lead.

Keynotes and invited talks

The Language of Life: Large Language Models in Decoding Biological Data — Hologenomic Data Analysis Symposium, São Carlos, Brazil, 2024 (Keynote)
Transformer-based models for bioinformatics (GenDAI) — UK Computational Intelligence Conference (UKCI), Ulster University, 2024 (Invited Speaker)

Patent

On-Air Split Federated Learning with Positive Labels — WO/2024/227944

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