Personal profile
Research interests
I work in natural language processing (NLP) / language technology / computational linguistics, and am a member of the School of Computing's Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing research group.
For more information, please see:
- my personal webpage, and
- my Google Scholar profile.
Education/Academic qualification
Natural Language Processing, PhD, Tree Adjoining Grammar and the Reluctant Paraphrasing of Text, Macquarie University
Award Date: 1 Apr 2000
Computer Science, BSc(hons), Macquarie University
Award Date: 1 Apr 1993
Actuarial Studies, BEc
Award Date: 1 Apr 1991
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Designing Data-Responsive Language Learning Environments through Conversation Practice with AI
Lee, Y. J. (Primary Chief Investigator), Proctor, M. (Chief Investigator), Enriquez Raido, V. (Associate Investigator), Dras, M. (Associate Investigator) & Roger, P. (Associate Investigator)
23/06/25 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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MRFF DoH (Usyd led): AIS-SHIELDS: Securing Health Intelligence Effors & Linking Data Silos
Sullivan, R. (Chief Investigator), Galloway, G. (Chief Investigator), Calamante, F. (Chief Investigator), Close, T. (Chief Investigator), Abramson, D. (Chief Investigator), Soyer , H. (Chief Investigator), Fernández-Peñas, P. (Chief Investigator), Janda, M. (Chief Investigator), Caffery, L. (Chief Investigator), Dras, M. (Primary Chief Investigator), McIver, A. (Chief Investigator), Barnett, M. (Chief Investigator), Wang, C. (Chief Investigator), Shieh, C.-C. (Chief Investigator), Pardey, M. (Chief Investigator), Pope, B. (Chief Investigator), Ward, N. (Chief Investigator), Jakrot, V. (Chief Investigator), Ferguson, P. M. (Chief Investigator) & Price, G. (Chief Investigator)
30/06/23 → 30/08/26
Project: Research
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Capital Markets CRC PhD Scholarship (Leonardo dos Santos Pinheiro)
Dras, M. (Primary Chief Investigator) & dos Santos Pinheiro, L. (Student)
11/08/17 → …
Project: Research
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Applications of Native Language Identification: Security, Privacy and Language Learning
Dras, M. (Primary Chief Investigator)
1/07/17 → …
Project: Research
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VaxGuard: Combating Malicious AI-Generated Vaccine Misinformation Campaigns
Naseem, U. (Primary Chief Investigator), Dras, M. (Primary Chief Investigator), Beheshti, A. (Primary Chief Investigator), Lau, A. (Primary Chief Investigator) & Liu, S. (Primary Chief Investigator)
1/07/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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A survey of progress in LLM alignment from the perspective of reward design
Ji, M., Wu, Y., Wu, Z., Wang, S., Yang, J., Dras, M. & Naseem, U., 23 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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De-identification of clinical data: a systematic review of free text, image and tabular data approaches
Faustini, P., McIver, A., Sullivan, R. & Dras, M., 15 Mar 2026, In: International Journal of Medical Informatics. 208, p. 1-14 14 p., 106225.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Facial movement dynamics reveal workload during complex multitasking
Sale, C., Stolar, M. N., Patil, G., Gostelow, M., Wallier, J., Macpherson, M. C., Kruger, J.-L., Dras, M., Hosking, S. G., Kallen, R. W. & Richardson, M. J., 18 Mar 2026, (Submitted) (arXiv).Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Fine-tuning GEC model based on language family corpus
Liu, Y. & Dras, M., 2026, Chinese computational linguistics: 24th China National Conference, CCL 2025, Jinan, China, August 11-14, 2025, proceedings. Sun, M., Duan, P., Liu, Z., Xu, R., Sun, W., Chen, Y., Tian, Z. & Liu, Z. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, Springer Nature, p. 43-58 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 16052).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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Bi-directional model cascading with proxy confidence
Warren, D. & Dras, M., 2025, ECAI 2025: 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 25-30 October 2025, Bologna, Italy: including 14th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2025): proceedings. Lynce, I., Murano, N., Vallati, M., Villata, S., Chesani, F., Milano, M., Omicini, A. & Dastani, M. (eds.). Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press, p. 4185-4192 8 p. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; vol. 413).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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Prizes
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Winner - Faculty of Science and Engineering Award for Inter-School Collaboration - 2023
Nayak, A. (Recipient), Mahmood, A. (Recipient), Beheshti, A. (Recipient), McIver, A. (Recipient), Bilgin, A. (Recipient), Liquet-Weiland, B. (Recipient), Svensson, C. (Recipient), Ramakrishnan, C. (Recipient), Smith, C. (Recipient), Molla-Aliod, D. (Recipient), Vatsalan, D. (Recipient), Xue, E. (Recipient), Gupta, G. (Recipient), Sofronov, G. (Recipient), Baker, G. (Recipient), Liu, G. (Recipient), Asghar, H. (Recipient), Doosti, H. (Recipient), Zhu, H. (Recipient), Jiang, I. (Recipient), Zheng, J. (Recipient), Lin, H. (Recipient), Wu, J. (Recipient), Ma, J. (Recipient), Binkowski, K. (Recipient), Dras, M. (Recipient), Manuguerra, M. (Recipient), Orgun, M. (Recipient), Lay, M. (Recipient), Zou, N. (Recipient), Kordzakhia, N. (Recipient), Busch, P. (Recipient), Graham, P. (Recipient), Schwitter, R. (Recipient), Chen, S. (Recipient), Smith, S. (Recipient), Cassidy, S. (Recipient), Prvan, T. (Recipient), Fung, T. (Recipient), Li, Y. (Recipient), Wang, Y. (Recipient), Zhang, Y. (Recipient) & Zhou, Y. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
- 3 Presentation
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Harnessing AI: The future of efficient and effective Defence Training.
Richardson, M. (Speaker), Dras, M. (Speaker), Kallen, R. (Speaker), Nalepka, P. (Speaker) & Patil, G. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Quantifying situation awareness during a competitive team multiplayer video game
Crone, C. (Speaker), Bin Kamruddin, A. (Speaker), Simpson, J. (Speaker), Stening, H. (Speaker), Patil, G. (Speaker), Nalepka, P. (Speaker), Kallen, R. (Speaker), Dras, M. (Speaker) & Richardson, M. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Realistic dialogue and task-effective action for synthetic teammates
Nalepka, P. (Speaker), Simpson, J. (Speaker), Stening, H. (Speaker), Crone, C. (Speaker), Bin Kamruddin, A. (Speaker), Patil, G. (Speaker), Kallen, R. (Speaker), Dras, M. (Speaker) & Richardson, M. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation