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Hi! I’m Nick, a first-year PhD student at the University of Vienna supervised by Sebastian Schuster. I’m interested in evaluating the abilities of LLM coding agents (see our work on RExBench), and developing more effective frameworks for human-agent collaboration.

Previously, I received a BA in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Speech & Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh. During my time at Edinburgh, I did research in emergent communication between neural networks with Hannah Rohde and Henry Conklin.

Get in touch here: nicholas.edwards[æt]univie.ac.at

news

Sep 15, 2025 Gave an invited talk on RExBench to Ludwig Schmidt’s group at Stanford/UW, together with Yukyung Lee! :t-rex:

selected publications

  1. arXiv
    RExBench: Can coding agents autonomously implement AI research extensions?
    Nicholas Edwards, Yukyung Lee, Yujun Audrey Mao, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22598, 2025
  2. CogSci ’23
    Anaphoric structure emerges between neural networks
    Nick Edwards, Hannah Rohde, and Henry Conklin
    In 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognition in Context, 2023