Alex(ander) Gurung

I am a PhD Student (expected graduation 2026) at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Language, Cognition and Communication supervised by Mirella Lapata. My research focuses on improving long-form text generation and analysis for narratives. My most recent work on character-representations, CHIRON, is now available on arxiv!

I was previously a Master’s student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing, graduating in December 2022. I also did my undergad at Georgia Tech, receiving my BS in CS and minor in Linguistics in December of 2020.

I was also as an AI resident at Meta AI where I worked on imbuing LLMs with commonsense reasoning for use in LIGHT. I have also done work on online radicalization with the SALT Lab under Dr. Diyi Yang in combination with Dr. David Muchlinski at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. I was also a machine learning engineer intern at TikTok, and before that I was a software engineer.

I’m always interested in talking about my research and learning more about what other people are doing, feel free to reach out!