Tom Hosking

Education

University of Edinburgh Sep 2019 - Present

PhD Candidate, CDT in NLP

Supervised by Mirella Lapata

University College London Sep 2017 - Sep 2018

MSc, Machine Learning (Distinction)

Distinction in all taught modules and thesis

Commended for highest project mark

University of Oxford, Worcester College 2006 - 2010

2.1 MPhys (Master of Physics)

Winchester College 2001 - 2006

Awarded a scholarship

A Levels: Physics (A), Maths (A), Further Maths (A), Chemistry (A), French (A), Latin (A)

Employment

Contractor, Associo Ltd Mar 2019 – Sep 2019

• Document management at scale for the legal profession
• Designed and built the whole NLP stack

Intern, Bloomsbury AI Mar 2018 – Sep 2018

• MSc Project in collaboration with NLP startup
• Built and researched question generation models using deep adversarial RL - online demo

Wedding Photographer, self employed Aug 2017 – Present

Trader, DRW Aug 2015 – May 2017

• Primary trader for USD rates products
• Improved trading models and converted core pricing spreadsheets to Python app

Quant Trader, Financial Market Engineering Feb 2011 – Jul 2015

• Proprietary trader of STIR, bond and ICE Swapnote futures
• Built simulation platform for researching quantitative ideas
• Combined trading, quant and programming knowledge to facilitate communication and coordinate strategy rollout

Developer, Orbis Investment Advisory Sep 2010 – Feb 2011

• Supported and improved valuation and pricing systems built in VB.NET

Intern, HSBC (Rates Options Trading) Jul – Sep 2009

Content Author, Wunderman Jul – Sep 2008

Web Developer, Pod1 Creative AgencyJul – Sep 2007
Jul – Aug 2006

• Maintenance developer for PHP/MySQL web projects

Work Experience, Diamond Light Source Synchrotron Aug 2005

• Built an app to automate survey measurements using a theodolite

Publications

Querent Intent in Multi-Sentence Questions • Laurie Burchell*, Jie Chi*, Tom Hosking*, Nina Markl* and Bonnie Webber
Linguistics Annotation Workshop, COLING 2020 (* = equal contribution)
BibTeXCodeDataset

@misc{burchell2020querent,
    title={Querent Intent in Multi-Sentence Questions}, 
    author={Laurie Burchell and Jie Chi and Tom Hosking and Nina Markl and Bonnie Webber},
    year={2020},
    eprint={2010.08980},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Evaluating Rewards for Question Generation Models • Tom Hosking, Sebastian Riedel
To appear at NAACL-HLT 2019
BibTeXCode

@inproceedings{hosking-riedel-2019-evaluating,
    title = "Evaluating Rewards for Question Generation Models",
    author = "Hosking, Tom  and
        Riedel, Sebastian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1237",
    pages = "2278--2283"
}

Skills & Languages

• Proficient in Python, TensorFlow, C++, SQL, HTML/CSS/JS
• Knowledge of React/redux, Gremlin, PyTorch, Docker, MongoDB

• English Native
• French Advanced

Interests

• Volunteer project supervisor with the Nuffield Future Researchers programme
• Mentor with Target Oxbridge
• Cycled from John o’Groats to Land’s End in 9 days, in aid of Everychild children’s charity
• Ran 26 miles across the Grand Canyon
• Coxed the winning Oxford Women’s Boat Race crew 2010, and the Oxford Men’s Lightweight Boat Race crew 2009
• Volunteered as a teaching assistant and coach in Nemato Township, South Africa
• Volunteered as a developer with Full Fact
• Keen photographer