I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh, advised by Prof. Mark Steedman and Dr. Shay Cohen. I research natural language processing systems, investigating computational models for understanding human language. I mostly work on discourse-related problems such as understanding documents and conversations. My Ph.D. research has focused on building models to detect and reason about entities in text (in particular, coreference resolution).
I completed my M.Sc. in Computer Science at McGill University, where I researched text summarization systems. I was supervised by Prof. Jackie C. K. Cheung and Dr. Annie Louis. I also interned at Korbit, where I designed methods for providing personalized feedback in intelligent tutor systems.
Publications
Exploration of Plan-Guided Summarization for Narrative Texts: the Case of Small Language Models
Matt Grenander, Siddharth Varia, Paula Czarnowska, Yogarshi Vyas, Kishaloy Halder, Bonan Min
WNU 2025
Sentence-Incremental Neural Coreference Resolution
Matt Grenander, Shay B. Cohen, Mark Steedman
EMNLP 2022
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Deep Discourse Analysis for Generating Personalized Feedback in Intelligent Tutor Systems
Matt Grenander, Robert Belfer, Ekaterina Kochmar, Iulian V. Serban, François St-Hilaire, Jackie C. K. Cheung
EAAI 2021
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Countering the Effects of Lead Bias in News Summarization via Multi-Stage Training and Auxiliary Losses
Matt Grenander*, Yue Dong*, Jackie C. K. Cheung, Annie Louis
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019
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Education
| Sept. 2020 - Aug. 2025 |
Ph.D. in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh Supervisors: Prof. Mark Steedman and Dr. Shay Cohen |
| 2017 - 2020 |
M.Sc. in Computer Science at McGill University Supervisors: Prof. Jackie C. K. Cheung and Dr. Annie Louis |
| 2013 - 2017 | B.Sc. (Honours) in Mathematics and Computer Science at McGill University |
Work Experience
| July - Oct. 2023 |
Applied Scientist Intern Amazon Web Services (AWS) · New York, USA |
| May - July 2022 |
Software Engineer Intern, Machine Learning Meta (Instagram) · London, UK |
| Jan. - Sept. 2020 | Machine Learning Intern Korbit Technologies · Montréal, Canada |