Coleman Haley

I am an incoming postdoctoral scholar in the LaGoM NLP group at KU Leuven. My interests generally lie in issues pertaining to computational typology, typological diversity in NLP, low-resource languages, tokenization, and the role of linguistic structure in NLP systems, particularly with respect to morphology.

I completed my Ph.D. in the CDT in Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh, working with Sharon Goldwater and Edoardo Ponti in 2026.

Before that, I graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2020 with a double major in Computer Science and Cognitive Science. I was advised by Paul Smolensky and Colin Wilson, with whom I built more efficient Tensor Product Representation methods and interpretable neural morphological learners, respectively.

In my spare time, I enjoy advocating for the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in STEM, baking, and embroidery. I really like the font EB Garamond.