Our Lab:

Faculty
Giuseppe Carenini
Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, HCI
Vered Shwartz
Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Commonsense Reasoning, Culturally Competent AI, Vision and Language, NLP Applications
Hila Gonen
Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP
Peter West
Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP
Raymond Ng
Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Data Mining, Text Mining, NLP, Health Informatics, Sensor Analytics, Data Bases
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan
Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Data Management, Data Mining, NLP
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Associate Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Representation Learning, Natural Language Socio-Pragmatics
Jian Zhu
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
Multilingual speech processing, Social NLP, Comptuational social sciences
Isabel Papadimitriou
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
generalizable grammatical abstractions, interaction between structure and meaning representations, multilingualism
Varada Kolhatkar
Educational Leadership Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Pedagogy
Gabriel Murray
Affliated Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Speech and Language Processing, Computational Social Science, Machine Learning
Postdocs
AbdelRahim Elmadany
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Social Science, Speech Act, ASR, Audio Classification
El Moatez Billah Nagoudi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Areas:
NLP, Machine Translation, Language Modeling, Style Transfer
Gaetano Cimino
Research Areas:
NLP, Discourse, Dialogue
Maksym Taranukhin
Research Areas:
reasoning, dialogue systems, critical-safety applications
Students
Grigorii Guz
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Discourse, Coreference Resolution
Peter Sullivan
PhD Student (School of Information)
Research Areas:
NLP, Speech Processing
Raymond Li
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Model Interpretability, Visualization
Wei-Rui Chen
PhD Student (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation
Aditya Chinchure
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Vision and Language
Bashar Talafha
PhD Student (School of Information)
Research Areas:
NLP, Speech Representation Learning, ASR
Sahithya Ravi
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Commonsense Reasoning, Vision and Language
Soheil Alavi
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, dialogue, commonsense reasoning
Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker
PhD Track Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Graph Neural Network for NLP, Natural Language Generation
EunJeong Hwang
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, GNN
Mehar Bhatia
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Commonsense Reasoning, Multilinguality
Annie (Zining) Wang
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Culturally Competent LLM, Multilinguality
Amirhossein Abaskohi
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Reasoning, Vision and Language
Yuwei Yin
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Generative AI, Multimodality
Amirhossein Dabiriaghdam
PhD Student (Computer Science & ECE)
Research Areas:
LLM Agents, World Models
Ethan Zhao
MSc Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Legal NLP, Evaluation, RAG, NLP, ML
Haeji Jung
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Multilingual NLP, LLM Hallucination
Shenran Wang
MSc Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, LLM Reliability, Efficient Methods for NLP
Qingyun Qian
Undergraduate Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP
Yilei Tu
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Multilingual NLP, Multimodality
Chani Jung
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Social NLP
Hazel Chen
MSc Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP
Irmak Bayir
MSc Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Interpretability & Reliability of LLMs
Kunal Samanta
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Open Endedness, Social NLP
Torrin Pataki
MSc Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Applications to Economics
Yejin Son
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Social Intelligence, Social Impact of AI
Research Associates
Jordon Johnson
Research Areas:
NLP
Alcides Alcoba Inciarte
Researcher
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Learning

Past Group Members

Ali Salamatian (now PhD student at UT Austin)
Chuyuan Li (now CNRS Researcher at LIG, Grenoble, France)
Shruthi Chockkalingam (now Earth Dynamics AI)
Joy (Zhuozhuo) Liu
Inna Ivanova (now Software Engineer (Google))
Gagan Bhatia (now PhD student at University of Technology Nuremberg)
Felipe González-Pizarro (now NLP start-up)
Farhan Samir (now Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto)
Ahmed AbuRa'ed
Ganesh Jawahar (now Research Scientist at Google Deepmind)
Ifeoluwanimi Adebara (now Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta)
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)
Chiyu Zhang (now Research Scientist at Meta AI)
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 Faculty member UBC)
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)
Miikka Silfverberg