Research

My long term research goals are focused on investigating methods of incorporating high-level cognitive capabilities into models. In the short and medium term, my research is focused on the infusion of world knowledge and common sense into pre-trained language models (e.g.

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Teaching

I teach Machine learning (CM20315) at the University of Bath. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Previously,

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Entrepreneurship

Prior to starting my PhD, I co-founded and ran Webfluenz, a product based social media marketing company, for six years. Webfluenz started as a three person operation out of a small terrace in India. ...

About

Harish completed his PhD in Question Answering from the University of Birmingham in 2019 and began his current post as Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath in 2022. In the interim, he has worked on research related to MWEs, Construction Grammar and language modelling and was the principal organiser of the SemEval 2022 Task on MWEs.

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Research Highlights

NOW HIRING!! Research Associate for Reasoning in LLMs (Deadline 05 August 2025)

Summary

This study analyses how large language and reasoning models handle tasks requiring different cognitive skills by examining internal activations and output behaviour. We explore when different forms of reasoning (e.g., planning, arithmetic) emerge and if such capabilities can be clustered by their underlying cognitive, memory retrieval, and linguistic demands.

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