
Prof. Francesca Toni
Principal Investigator and strategic lead
Argumentation, interactive explainability, contestability and project leadership.
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Complementary expertise in causal discovery, computational argumentation, explainable AI and high-stakes modelling—strengthened by supervised student research.
Core CArLA team

Principal Investigator and strategic lead
Argumentation, interactive explainability, contestability and project leadership.
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Technical lead
Causal discovery, statistical learning, explainable AI, contestability and software engineering.
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Argumentation and explainability
Computational argumentation theory, scalability and explainable AI.
Acknowledgements
These projects contributed ideas, experiments and implementations related to the wider CArLA research programme. Acknowledgement here does not imply that every student was formally funded by the grant.
MEng 2026
Bridging Gradual Semantics and Graph Neural Networks for Argumentative Causal Discovery.
MSc 2025
Leveraging Large Language Models for Causal Discovery.
MSc 2025
Exploring Semantics for Argumentative Causal Discovery.
MEng 2025
Graph Neural Networks for Approximate Argumentative Reasoning.
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