Faculty and Ph.D. Students

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Andy Chung

Ph.D. Student

Agentic AI, Autonomous Agents, Large Language Models

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Chimaobi Okite

Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Rada Mihalcea)

Natural language Reasoning, Natural language Generation, Large Language Models

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Jacob Sansom

Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Honglak Lee)

Language Acquisition, Continual Learning, Cognitive Modeling

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Jianing "Jed" Yang

Ph.D. Candidate

3D Computer Vision, Multimodal Large Language Models, Embodied AI, Robotics

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Josue Torres-Fonseca

Ph.D. Student

Embodied Agents, Spoken Language Understanding, Situated Dialogue, Language Grounding, Cognitive development

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Jung-Chun Liu

Ph.D. Student

Symbolic AI, Reinforcement Learning, Cognitive Modeling

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Keunwoo Peter Yu

Ph.D. Candidate

Multimodal Learning, Embodied AI

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Run "Roihn" Peng

Ph.D. Student

Task Learning, Reinforcement Learning

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Yichi Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate

Grounded Language Processing, Embodied AI, Situated Dialog

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Yinpei Dai

Ph.D. Candidate

Spoken Language Understanding, Dialogue Management, Natural Language Generation

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Yuwei Bao

Ph.D. Candidate

Grounded Language Acquisition, Pragmatic Communication

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Ziqiao "Martin" Ma

Ph.D. Candidate

Multimodal Learning, Language Grounding, Psycholinguistics

Alumni

Ph.D. Alumni:

Master’s Alumni:

  • Zekun Wang (2022-2024 –> PhD at Georgia Tech)
  • Xuweiyi Chen (2022-2024 –> PhD at UVA)
  • Nikhil Devraj (M.S. 2022-2023)
  • Ruohua Harold Li (M.S. 2021-2023 –> Gatik)
  • Barrett Lattimer (M.S. 2021-2022 –> ASAPP)
  • Wenfei Tang (M.S. 2021-2022 –> NVIDIA)
  • Ben VanDerPloeg (M.S. 2021-2022)
  • Tianrong Zhang (M.S. 2020-2022 –> Ph.D. at PennState)
  • Qiucheng Wu (M.S. 2019-2021 –> Ph.D. at UCSB)
  • James Peterkin II (M.S. 2019 –> Microsoft)
  • Sari Saba-Sadiya (M.S. 2017 –> Ph.D. at MSU)
  • Malcolm Doering (M.S. 2015 –> Ph.D. at Osaka University)
  • Alex Peer (M.S. 2012 –> Ph.D. at Wisconsin Madison)
  • Brian Romanowski (M.S. 2011 –> Nuance)
  • Minghang Cai (M.S. 2007)
  • Kiran Joshi (M.S. 2005)
  • Vineet Bansal (M.S. 2004)

Undergrad Alumni:

  • Sikai Li (2023-2024)
  • Xijia Zhang (2022-2024 –> PhD at Georgia Tech)
  • Jiajun Xi (2023-2024 –> MS at UCSD)
  • Jiayi Pan (2021-2023 –> PhD at UCB)
  • Qianqi Yan (2021-2023 –> PhD at UCSC)
  • Eui-In Kim (2021-2023)
  • Xiaoyang Nick Hu (2021-2022 –> Brown)
  • Xingyao Wang (2021-2022 –> PhD at UIUC)
  • Yingzhuo Yu (2021-2022 –> MCS at UIUC)
  • Xinyu Lu (2021-2022 –> MIIS at CMU)
  • Haoyi Qiu (2019-2022 –> PhD at UCLA)
  • Bri Epstein (2019-2022 –> ExtraHop)
  • Sky Wang (2019-2021 –> PhD at Columbia)
  • Jiaxin Ying (2020-2021 –> MCS at UIUC)
  • Sayan Ghosh (2019-2021 –> PhD at USC)
  • Sarah Fillwock (2015-2018 –> PhD at Emory)
  • James Finch (2015-2018 –> PhD at Emory)
  • Kenneth Stewart (2017-2018 –> PhD at UC Irvine)
  • Austin Littley (2014-2015)
  • Spencer Ottarson (2012-2014)
  • Cody Littley (2012-2013)
  • Kenneth Hanson (2012, 2013)
  • Caitlin McDonald (2012)
  • Brandon Waterloo (2010)
  • Dianna Kay (2010)
  • Malcolm Doering (2009)
  • Marie Lazar (2008-2009)
  • Jacob Walker (2009)
  • Roy Dong (2008)
  • Timothy Aubel (2007-2008)
  • Sarah Deighan (2007-2008)
  • Steve Emerlander (2007)
  • Hogyeong Jeong (2006)
  • Tyler Baldwin (2005)
  • Joseph Blaim (2004)