Our Mission

The research group focuses on advancing human language technologies and fostering societal impact through outreach efforts. Our work bridges technical sophistication with real-world applications, exploring fundamental research questions in natural language processing (NLP) while building large language models.

We are dedicated to creating multilingual and multimodal NLP systems that extend beyond the boundaries. Our research and innovations contribute to societal domains, such as mental healthcare and diagnostic support, where advanced methods in NLP can make a difference. In a broader sense, outreach aims to extend help, knowledge, or resources to communities, fostering inclusion, education, and positive social impact. 

Group Members

Researchers

Shaoxiong Ji Group Leader

  • Independent research group leader at TU Darmstadt
  • PhD in computer science from Aalto University, Finland, 2023
  • Areas: AI for health, affective computing, and multilingual LLMs.

Doan Nam Long Vu Doctoral Researcher

  • MSc and BSc from TU Darmstadt
  • Areas: machine translation, differential privacy, and mental health applications

Zihao Li Doctoral Researcher at University of Helsinki (Co-supervision)

  • MSc from University of Helsinki
  • Areas: multilingual NLP, LLMs, and machine translation.

Alumnus

University of Helsinki

Jaakko Paavola. Research assistant at University of Helsinki, 2024. Now Quantitative Analyst at OP Financial Group

Henna Roinisto. MSc thesis, University of Helsinki, jointly with Metsä Group
Thesis: Integrating Open-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Large Language Models for Business, Market and Responsibility Insights, 2024.

Aalto University

Ya Gao. MSc thesis, Aalto University. Now PhD candidate at Aalto University
Thesis: Joint entity and relation extraction via contrastive learning on knowledge-augmented graph embeddings, 2023.

Tuulia Denti. MSc thesis, Aalto University, jointly with HUS. Now Data Analyst at HUS
Thesis: Natural Language Processing with Topic Models for Clinical Texts of Prostate Cancer Patients, 2022.

Wei Sun. MSc thesis, Aalto University, jointly with HUS. Now PhD candidate at KU Leuven, Belgium
Thesis: Extracting Medical Entities from Radiology Reports with Ontology-based Distant Supervision, 2022.