About me!

Hello! My name is Ruhi and I am a first year PhD student at the University of Groningen in the Computational Linguistics aka GroNLP group. My supervisors are Tommaso Caselli, Andreas van Cranenburgh and Malvina Nissim. In my PhD, I am part of the HAICu consortium. For it, I aim to develop text understanding models through neurosymbolic AI and transfer learning techniques to capture socio-cultural language-transmitted aspects of past times in the Netherlands, with a particular focus on past scenarios for which only sparse data exists, for example working towards uncovering under-represented perspectives from marginalised groups in cultural heritage data.

I recieved my bachelor’s (Artificial Intelligence, 2019-2022) and master’s (Artificial Intelligence, 2022-2024) from University of Groningen. Here are my bachelor’s thesis and master’s thesis.

My general interest is in using artificial intelligence technologies to improve and simplify the lives of people. I am also interested in languages which are not often represented in traditional research in natural language processing and computational linguistics. Previously I have also worked on language modeling and developing LLM’s as communication aids for language disorders.