Our Mission

We focus on omni language AI research, advancing human language technologies, pushing forwards multimodal learning capabilities, and fostering societal impact through outreach efforts. Our work bridges technical sophistication with real-world applications, exploring fundamental research questions in natural language processing and multimodal AI while building large language models for societal impacts.

Our dynamic group consists of researchers, students and visitors from ELLIS Institute Finland, University of Turku (TurkuNLP group), and other collaborative institutions.

Group Members

Researchers

  • Shaoxiong Ji
    • Role: Group Leader
    • Affiliation(s): ELLIS Institute Finland & University of Turku
    • Areas of Expertise: AI for health and multilingual NLP
  • Zihao Li
    • Role: Doctoral Researcher (Co-supervision with Jörg Tiedemann)
    • Affiliation(s): University of Helsinki
    • Areas of Expertise: Multilingual NLP and machine translation

Students

We warmly welcome BSc and MSc students. Find out more here!

Alumnus

  • Doan Nam Long Vu
    • Doctoral researcher, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (2025)
    • Project: DYNAMIC (Dynamic Network Approach of Mental Health to Stimulate Innovations for Change)
    • Current Position: Doctoral Candidate at TU Darmstadt
  • Jaakko Paavola
    • Research assistant, University of Helsinki, Finland (2024)
    • Project: MaLA-LM (Massive Language Adaptation of Large Language Models)
    • Current Position: Quantitative Analyst at OP Financial Group
  • Henna Roinisto
    • MSc thesis student, University of Helsinki, Finland, jointly with Metsä Group (2024)
    • Thesis: Integrating Open-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Large Language Models for Business, Market and Responsibility Insights
    • Current Position: Data Scientist at Metsä Group
  • Ya Gao
    • MSc thesis student, Aalto University, Finland (2023)
    • Thesis: Joint entity and relation extraction via contrastive learning on knowledge-augmented graph embeddings
    • Current Position: PhD Candidate at Aalto University
  • Tuulia Denti
    • MSc thesis student, Aalto University, Finland, jointly with HUS (2022)
    • Thesis: Natural Language Processing with Topic Models for Clinical Texts of Prostate Cancer Patients
    • Current Position: Data Analyst at HUS
  • Wei Sun
    • MSc thesis student, Aalto University, Finland, jointly with HUS (2022)
    • Thesis: Extracting Medical Entities from Radiology Reports with Ontology-based Distant Supervision
    • Current Position: PhD Candidate at KU Leuven, Belgium

Join Us

Are you passionate about advancing NLP research and contributing to impactful societal applications? Although we currently do not have funded positions available, we welcome highly motivated Master’s students and visiting researchers to collaborate with us through external funding or self-supported programs.