Xia Cui

Xia Cui is a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at the Manchester Metropolitan University, affiliated with the Manchester Metropolitan Joint Institute and the Department of Computing and Mathematics. She leads research in the Human-Centred Computing Lab and Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab. Her expertise spans Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Multi-modal Learning, and Machine Learning Applications.

Xia holds a PhD (Computer Science, University of Liverpool 2020), MSc (Web Science and Big Data Analytics, UCL 2015), and BSc (Internet Computing, University of Liverpool 2013). Notable projects include a KTP collaboration with University of Manchester and VoiceIQ Ltd to develop AI systems for detecting speaker vulnerability indicators. She also worked with BBC R&D on speech/music discrimination tools during her MSc.

Her research trends focus on advancing NLP techniques for mental health detection, multimodal data fusion, and domain adaptation challenges. Recent work includes developing annotator ranking models for mixed-annotator datasets and multimodal approaches for vulnerability identification. She actively participates in conferences like Society of Psychotherapy Research and Cyberpsychology Annual Conference.

Xia advises prospective students on MSc/PhD projects requiring Python and ML/NLP proficiency. She is a member of interdisciplinary labs exploring human-computer interaction and AI ethics.