Our Lab:

Faculty
Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, HCI
Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Semantics, Pragmatics, Commonsense Reasoning
Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Data Management, Data Mining, NLP
Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Data Mining, Text Mining, NLP, Health Informatics, Sensor Analytics, Data Bases
Associate Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Representation Learning, Natural Language Socio-Pragmatics
Educational Leadership Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Pedagogy
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Semantics, Morphological Tagging, Computational Phonology and Morphology
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
Multilingual speech processing, Social NLP, Comptuational social sciences
Affliated Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Speech and Language Processing, Computational Social Science, Machine Learning
Postdocs
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Social Science, Speech Act, ASR, Audio Classification
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Areas:
NLP, Machine Translation, Language Modeling, Style Transfer
Research Areas:
NLP
Research Areas:
NLP, Discourse, Dialogue, AI for healthcare
Students
PhD Candidate (School of Information)
Research Areas:
NLP, Social Media Mining, Language Representation Learning
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Discourse, Coreference Resolution
PhD Candidate (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Learning, Machine Translation, Low Resource Languages
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Natural Language Generation, Model Efficiency
PhD Student (School of Information)
Research Areas:
NLP, Speech Processing
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Model Interpretability, Visualization
PhD Student (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation
PhD Student (School of Information)
Research Areas:
NLP, Speech Representation Learning, ASR
PhD Student (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Semantics
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Commonsense Reasoning, Vision and Language
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, dialogue, commonsense reasoning
PhD Track Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Graph Neural Network for NLP, Natural Language Generation
Undergraduate Student (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Learning
Master Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, GNN
Masters Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Commonsense Reasoning, Multilinguality
Masters Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP
Masters Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Reasoning, Vision and Language
PhD Track Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Multilingualism, Multimodality
Visiting PhD Student
Research Areas:
NLP, Discourse, Dialogue
Research Associates
Research Areas:
NLP
Researcher
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Learning

Past Group Members

Felipe González-Pizarro (now NLP start-up)
Patrick Huber (now Research Scientist at Meta AI)
Patrick Boutet (now Founder of Bandit Labs Inc.)
Linzi Xing (now Researcher at Huawei Technologies Canada)
Hyeju Jang (now Assistant Professor at IUPUI)
Dave Johnson (now Data Scientist at Ontopical)
Wen Xiao (now Research Scientist Azure AI at Microsoft)
Yashar Mehdad (now Principal AI Engineer (Technical Director), Generative AI at Airbnb)
Xiodong Zhou
Xing Zeng (now Text IQ)
Weirui Kong (now Amazon)
Weicong Liao (now Pinterest)
Vaden Masrani (now Reasearcher at Huawei Canada)
Tatsuro Oya (now Microsoft Research)
Shima Gerani (now Freelancer.com)
Shama Rashid (now HootSuite)
Shafiq Joty (now Associate Professor at Nanyang Tech University (Singapore) on-leave. Now Research Director Salesforce AI Research)
Oana Sandu (now Amazon)
Nicholas FitzGerald (now Google)
Mariyam Tavafi (now Google)
Mahsa Imani (now SAP)
Lucas Rizoli
Kelsey Allen (now Research Scientist at DeepMind)
Kailang Jiang (now Amazon)
Jeanette Bautista (now Faculty at University of Winnipeg)
Jan Ulrich (now Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce)
Jackie C. K. Cheung (now Faculty at McGill University)
Gabriel Murray (now Faculty at Univ of Fraser Valley)
Enamul Hoque (now Faculty at York University)
David Jin
Bita Nejat (now Google)
Amon Ge
Adam Pauls (now Research Scientist at Scaled Cognition)