Edward Grefenstette

Mr Edward Thomas Grefenstette

Research Assistant

College Lecturer, Hertford College

Student, Balliol College

edward.grefenstette@cs.ox.ac.uk

+44 7841 143380

+44 1865 273825

Room 217, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Computational Linguistics
Information Retrieval
Category Theory
Quantum Informatics
Foundations of Mathematics

Biography

I am a Franco-American computer scientist, working as a research assistant on EPSRC Project EP/I03808X/1 entitled A Unified Model of Compositional and Distributional Semantics: Theory and Applications. I am simultaneously finishing a DPhil on compositional distributional models of natural language semantics, funded (Oct '09 to Oct '12) by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Account. I am also lecturing at Hertford College to students taking Oxford's new computer science and philosophy course.

I principally collaborate with the following people:

I recently completed work with Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Chris Heunen as an editor on the production of a book entitled "Quantum physics and linguistics: a compositional, diagrammatic discourse" to be published by Oxford University Press (planned for release in February 2013).

In addition to my research, I am keenly interested in helping with the outreach activities of the department and University, and regularly participate in open days and school events promoting interest in Computer Science and CompPhil, state school accessibility to Oxford, and encouraging young women to consider science at university.

Before coming to the department in 2008 to do the MSc which led to my DPhil, I did graduate work in the philosophy departments at the University of St Andrews in mathematical logic, the foundation of mathematics, and some philosophy of language. Prior to this, I obtained a BSc in Physics & Philosophy from the University of Sheffield.

When not working in my office (Room 217), I can be found: