teaching | Nikolai Ilinykh

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Teaching Assistant (2020-2026)

Courses

LT2318 AI Cognitive Systems: lectures and tutorials on image classification, image captioning, visual question answering, embodied agents, and virtual environments (2020-2023, 2025).
LT2213 Computational Semantics: lectures and tutorials on lambda calculus, vector semantics, language modeling, transformers, and natural language inference (2020-2024).
LI1101 Linguistics base course: lectures on language technology for linguists (2020, 2021).
LI2102 Research Methods in Linguistics: lectures on crowdsourcing for linguists (2024, 2025).

Guest Lectures

AIS101 H25 Artificial Intelligence in Society: guest lecture on grounding meaning in humans and machines (2025).
AIS101 H26 Artificial Intelligence in Society: guest lecture on grounding meaning in humans and machines (2026).

University of Bielefeld, Germany

Teaching Assistant (2017-2019)

Lectures and labs on NLP methods for data analysis (for example, word embedding similarity).
Introduction to programming for linguists (Python basics).
Foundations of NLP for text processing (for example, parsing, tagging, named entity recognition, and coreference resolution).

Supervision

Master thesis supervision

V. Paraskevi Daniilidou, Drawing with a social robot: Evaluating a vision-language model on spatial prepositions in an L2 drawing-based learning task. Master’s in Language Technology (MLT), FLoV, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisors: Vladislav Maraev and Nikolai Ilinykh. Defence date: 2025-10-14.
K. Akhavan, Generating route descriptions: Automatic generation of route descriptions with visual elements from graph and salient landmarks. Master’s in Language Technology (MLT), FLoV, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisors: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh. Defence date: 2024-10-02.
B. Le Glouanec, “Move towards the big black piano”: How fine-grained features affect the goal of navigation. Improving salient landmark features in an end-to-end system. Master’s in Language Technology (MLT), FLoV, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisors: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh. Defence date: 2024-10-02.
E. Voloshina, Are language-and-vision transformers sensitive to discourse? The case study of ViLBERT. Master’s in Language Technology (MLT), FLoV, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisors: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh. Defence date: 2023-06-01.
Y. Emampoor, There’s a Microwave in the Hallway. Master’s in Language Technology (MLT), FLoV, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisors: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh. Defence date: 2022-01-10.
A. Aruqi, Embodied Question Answering in Robotic Environment. Automatic generation of a synthetic question-answer data-set. Master’s in Language Technology (MLT), FLoV, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisors: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh. Defence date: 2021-10-28.