Our Lab:

Faculty
Giuseppe Carenini
Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, HCI
Vered Shwartz
Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Semantics, Pragmatics, Commonsense Reasoning
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan
Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Data Management, Data Mining, NLP
Raymond Ng
Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Data Mining, Text Mining, NLP, Health Informatics, Sensor Analytics, Data Bases
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Associate Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Representation Learning, Natural Language Socio-Pragmatics
Varada Kolhatkar
Educational Leadership Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Pedagogy
Miikka Silfverberg
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Semantics, Morphological Tagging, Computational Phonology and Morphology
Jian Zhu
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
Multilingual speech processing, Social NLP, Comptuational social sciences
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
Ahmed AbuRa'ed
Research Areas:
LLMs, RAG systems, Text Classification, Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling, Summarization, Simplification.
Chuyuan Li
Research Areas:
NLP, Discourse, Dialogue, AI for healthcare
Students
Chiyu Zhang
PhD Candidate (School of Information)
Research Areas:
NLP, Social Media Mining, Language Representation Learning
Grigorii Guz
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Discourse, Coreference Resolution
Ifeoluwanimi Adebara
PhD Candidate (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Learning, Machine Translation, Low Resource Languages
Ganesh Jawahar
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Natural Language Generation, Model Efficiency
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
Bashar Talafha
PhD Student (School of Information)
Research Areas:
NLP, Speech Representation Learning, ASR
Farhan Samir
PhD Student (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Semantics
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
Gagan Bhatia
Undergraduate Student (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Learning
Inna Ivanova
Master Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP
EunJeong Hwang
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, GNN
Mehar Bhatia
Masters Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Commonsense Reasoning, Multilinguality
Shruthi Chockkalingam
Masters Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP
Amirhossein Abaskohi
Masters Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Reasoning, Vision and Language
Yuwei Yin
PhD Track Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Multilingualism, Multimodality
Gaetano Cimino
Visiting PhD Student
Research Areas:
NLP, Discourse, Dialogue
Ali Salamatian
Undergraduate Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Vision and Language
Research Associates
Jordon Johnson
Research Areas:
NLP
Alcides Alcoba Inciarte
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)