Dr Tommy Yuan
Reader

Interests

I am interested in argumentation, dialogue systems, natural language processing for argumentation and the application of machine learning techniques to various argumentation tasks. I have been supervising a few PhD projects that involve the use of reinforcement learning for agent learning to argue, graph neural networks for argument labelling, and LSTM with attention models for argument mining and fake news detection. I am also interested in social dialogue for autistic children, system dependability arguments, and the application of AI technologies to the railway domain.

Website: https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ty513/

Qualifications

MSc in Software Engineering
PhD in Computer Science

Career

2022- now Reader, University of York
2018-2022 Senior Lecturer, University of York
2013-2018 Lecturer, University of York
2009-2013 Teaching Fellow, University of York
2005-2008 Assistant Professor, University of Akureyri, Iceland

Departmental and University Roles

• Deputy Chair of Board of Examiners (marking for On-campus)
• ACS Admissions Tutor