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Our Lab:
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Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, HCI
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Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Semantics, Pragmatics, Commonsense Reasoning
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Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Data Mining, Text Mining, NLP, Health Informatics, Sensor Analytics, Data Bases
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Associate Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Representation Learning, Natural Language Socio-Pragmatics
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Educational Leadership Assistant Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Pedagogy
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Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Semantics, Morphological Tagging, Computational Phonology and Morphology
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Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
Multilingual speech processing, Social NLP, Comptuational social sciences
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Affliated Professor (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Speech and Language Processing, Computational Social Science, Machine Learning
Postdocs
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Social Science, Speech Act, ASR, Audio Classification
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Areas:
NLP, Machine Translation, Language Modeling, Style Transfer
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Research Areas:
LLMs, RAG systems, Text Classification, Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling, Summarization, Simplification.
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Students
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PhD Candidate (School of Information)
Research Areas:
NLP, Social Media Mining, Language Representation Learning
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PhD Candidate (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Learning, Machine Translation, Low Resource Languages
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PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
Natural Language Generation, Model Efficiency
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PhD Student (Linguistics)
Research Areas:
NLP, Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation
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PhD Student (School of Information)
Research Areas:
NLP, Speech Representation Learning, ASR
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PhD Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Commonsense Reasoning, Vision and Language
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PhD Track Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Graph Neural Network for NLP, Natural Language Generation
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Undergraduate Student (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Research Areas:
NLP, Deep Learning
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Masters Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Commonsense Reasoning, Multilinguality
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Masters Student (Computer Science)
Research Areas:
NLP, Reasoning, Vision and Language
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Research Associates
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Past Group Members
Dave Johnson
(now
Data Scientist at Ontopical)
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)
Jan Ulrich
(now
Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce)
David Jin
Bita Nejat
(now
Google)
Amon Ge
Adam Pauls
(now
Research Scientist at Scaled Cognition)