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PhD in ILCC: Language Processing, Speech Technology, Information Retrieval, Cognition

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

• Supervised by Mirella Lapata and Nikolay Malkin
• Expected graduation December 2026

Master of Science in Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

• Concentration in Machine Learning

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

• Minor in Linguistics

PhD Candidate

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

• Working on efficient and creative reinforcement learning for long-narrative tasks, code, and deep research
• Designed a reinforcement learning paradigm for book-chapter generation, published at COLM 2025

Visiting Researcher

RL for Agentic Reasoning (RLAR), ServiceNow, Atlanta, GA

• Exploring privacy-augmented deep-research agents

Researcher

Social and Language Technologies Group, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

• Investigated the processes and distribution of radicalization on insular social media
• Analyzed the prevalence of political frames using a dependency-parsing system

AI Resident

ParlAI Team, Meta AI, New York City, NY

• Improved LLM generalization in predicting text-game world-state changes

Machine Learning Graduate Research Assistant

Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA

• Expanded a genetic programming framework's capabilities for images

Teaching Assistant

Foundations of NLP, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

• Designed course materials for an undergraduate NLP course
• Created coding and theory assignments for sentiment analysis and translation

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Trust & Safety Team, TikTok, Mountain View, CA

• Designed mixture-of-experts neural architectures to improve region-specific auto-moderation performance
• Researched multi-task learning loss functions and architectures
• Deployed models to production and measured performance improvements over time

Lightweight Latent Reasoning for Narrative Tasks

Alexander Gurung, Nikolay Malkin, Mirella Lapata

Long-Context Reasoning Through Proxy-Based Chain-of-Thought Tuning

Miao Li, Irina Saparina, Alexander Gurung, Mirella Lapata

Who Gets Cited Most? Benchmarking Long-Context Numerical Reasoning on Scientific Articles

Miao Li, Alexander Gurung, Irina Saparina, Mirella Lapata

Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation

Alexander Gurung, Mirella Lapata

CHIRON: Rich Character Representations in Long-Form Narratives

Alexander Gurung, Mirella Lapata

Infusing Commonsense World Models with Graph Knowledge

Alexander Gurung, Mojtaba Komeili, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, Jack Urbanek