AI, NLP & Financial AI Research Projects

My research projects span Financial AI, multilingual NLP, trustworthy AI, low-resource language technologies, document intelligence, generative AI, and large language models. These projects involve collaborations with universities, governments, regulators, and industry partners across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Many of the projects focus on building scalable AI infrastructure, multilingual datasets, explainable AI systems, and domain-specific language technologies for high-stakes environments including finance, policy, healthcare, and sustainability. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

Major & Recent Projects

PolicyVerse

USD $100,000 – Accelerating Research Excellence Program (PI)
Multi-Agent LLMs Policy AI Multilingual Reasoning

A multilingual multi-agent LLM framework for policy reasoning and collaborative multilingual reasoning (CMR). The project focuses on detecting policy overlaps, inconsistencies, and dependencies across multilingual policy documents using advanced AI reasoning systems.

Dynamic Models for Real-Time Autonomous Decision Making

USD $100,000 – Accelerating Research Excellence Program (Co-I)
AI Decision Systems Autonomous Systems Uncertainty Modelling

Research on autonomous decision-making systems under uncertainty, including stochastic environments, legacy teleoperated systems, and continuous action spaces for real-world AI deployment.

Detecting Greenwashing and Greenhushing Risks

USD $18,000 – CBM Seed Funds, VinUniversity (Co-I)
Sustainable Finance Financial AI NLP

An NLP-driven framework for identifying greenwashing and greenhushing risks in corporate sustainability disclosures to support responsible finance and ESG transparency.

FreeTxt-Vi

USD $7,200 – Cross College Funds, VinUniversity (PI)
Survey AI Vietnamese NLP Text Analytics

A bilingual Vietnamese-English free-text survey analysis platform for automated processing, summarisation, sentiment analysis, and large-scale analysis of open-ended responses.

ViSAS

USD $7,200 – Cross College Funds, VinUniversity (PI)
Semantic Tagging Vietnamese NLP Language Resources

An open-source Vietnamese semantic tagging system inspired by the USAS and AraSAS semantic analysis frameworks for multilingual semantic understanding.

Monitoring Water Pipe Bursts with NLP

USD $13,400 – South West Water UK (Consultant)
Infrastructure AI Predictive Analytics NLP

Using natural language reports and operational text data to predict and monitor water infrastructure failures using applied NLP and machine learning techniques.

Welsh Language Model Pilot

USD $13,400 – Welsh Government (PI)
LLMs Low-Resource Languages Welsh NLP

A pilot transformer-based language model for Welsh, focusing on sentiment analysis and low-resource language AI development.

DigiGrid

USD $6,700 – Welsh Government (PI)
Language Infrastructure Resource Hub Welsh AI

Infrastructure for collecting, managing, and curating Welsh language resources to support NLP and AI research for low-resource languages.

Catalyst for Celtic Languages NLP Research

USD $13,300 – Lancaster University (PI)
Celtic NLP Low-Resource AI Language Technology

Supporting the development of datasets, NLP tools, and AI resources for under-resourced Celtic languages.

FreeTxt (UK)

USD $134,000 – AHRC (Co-I)
Text Analytics Bilingual NLP Social Research AI

A framework for processing bilingual survey and questionnaire free-text data using NLP, corpus linguistics, and explainable AI techniques.

Earlier Projects

CARE – Canadian Annual Reports Extractor

USD $38,100 – Mitacs / HEC Montréal / CPA Canada (PI)
Financial NLP Corporate Reports Document AI

Development of datasets and pipelines for analysing Canadian financial disclosures using NLP and document intelligence techniques.

Beyond the Paycheck

USD $700,000 – Carlsberg Foundation (Consultant)
Workplace Analytics Social AI Text Mining

Research collaboration focusing on workplace wellbeing, organisational communication, and large-scale textual analysis.

Thesaurus of Contemporary Welsh

USD $134,000 – Welsh Government (PI)
Embeddings Lexical AI Welsh NLP

Development of a modern Welsh thesaurus using embedding-based semantic modelling and NLP approaches for low-resource language technology.

Welsh Summary Creator

USD $134,000 – Welsh Government (PI)
Summarisation Generative AI Welsh NLP

Automatic summarisation system for Welsh language texts using transformer-based NLP and multilingual summarisation approaches.

CLARA-Fin

USD $46,990 – Spanish Agency for Research (Consultant)
Readability Financial NLP Disclosure Analysis

Research on readability metrics and textual complexity in English and Spanish financial disclosures using NLP and corpus-based methods.

Corporate Disclosure Assessment (AS15)

USD $27,940 – IAAER / KPMG (PI)
Corporate Reporting Financial AI Narrative Analysis

Evaluation and analysis of corporate narrative disclosures and IFRS-related reporting using NLP-driven methodologies.

AraSAS

USD $7,620 – Zayed University UAE (PI)
Arabic NLP Semantic Tagging Language Models

An Arabic semantic tagging framework aligned with the USAS semantic analysis system to support multilingual semantic understanding and Arabic NLP research.

FinT-esp

USD $44,450 – Spanish Agency for Research (Consultant)
Spanish Financial NLP Corpora Text Analytics

Building and analysing Spanish financial corpora for multilingual financial NLP and AI research.

Bio Text Mining (BioTM)

USD $120,000 – Wellcome Trust UK (Researcher)
Biomedical NLP Mental Health AI Text Mining

Biomedical text mining research focused on mental health and biomedical literature analysis using AI and NLP methodologies.

Influences on Corporate Financial Information Environment

USD $380,000 – UKRI (Researcher)
Financial Communication Investor Behaviour Financial NLP

Research investigating relationships between corporate reporting, media narratives, and investor response using computational linguistic analysis.

Understanding Corporate Communication

USD $100,000 – UKRI (Researcher)
Corporate Narratives Discourse Analysis Financial AI

Analysis of strategic narrative communication and corporate disclosure practices using NLP and corpus-driven methodologies.

SKOS-HASSET

USD $120,000 – Jisc (Developer)
Knowledge Graphs Semantic Web AI Infrastructure

Development of a SKOS-based thesaurus and semantic infrastructure for social science terminology and intelligent information retrieval.