Faculty

Joyce Y. Chai

Professor

Ph.D. Students

Cristian-Paul Bara

Ph.D. Student

Situated Dialogue, Embodied Agents

Jianing "Jed" Yang

Ph.D. Student

Robot NLP, Interactive Task Learning, Multimodal Machine Learning

Keunwoo Peter Yu

Ph.D. Student

Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Architectures, Causal Reasoning, Commonsense Reasoning

Shane Storks

Ph.D. Student

Robust Natural Language Inference, Embodied Agents

Yichi Zhang

Ph.D. Student

Natural Language Processing, Situated Dialogue, Interactive Task Learning

Yuwei "Emily" Bao

Ph.D. Student

Ziqiao "Martin" Ma

Ph.D. Student

Embodied Agents, Commonsense Reasoning, Physical Causality

Master’s Students

Ben VanDerPloeg

Graduate Research Assistant

Nikhil Devraj

Graduate Research Assistant

Robot Learning, Grounded Reasoning

Tianrong Zhang

Graduate Research Assistant

Undergrad Students

Bri Epstein

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Haoyi Qiu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jiahao Qiu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jiayi Pan

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Alumni

Ph.D. Alumni:

Qiaozi Gao (Ph.D. 2019 –> Amazon Lab126)
Shaohua Yang (Ph.D. 2019 –> Bloomberg AI)
Lanbo She (Ph.D. 2017 –> Microsoft Research AI)
Changsong Liu (Ph.D. 2015 –> DMAI)
Rui Fang (Ph.D. 2014 –> Thomson Reuters)
Tyler Baldwin (Ph.D. 2012 –> IBM Almaden Research Center)
Matt Gerber (Ph.D. 2011 –> Assist Prof at University of Virginia)
Zahar Prasov (Ph.D. 2010 –> Draper Laboratory)
Chen Zhang (Ph.D. 2010 –> Snapchat)
Shaolin Qu (Ph.D. 2009 –> Google)
Mingyu Sun (Ph.D. 2006 –> University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Master’s Alumni:

Qiucheng Wu (M.S. 2019-2021 –> Ph.D. student at UCSB)
James Peterkin II (M.S. 2019 –> Microsoft)
Malcolm Doering (M.S. 2015 –> Ph.D. student at Osaka University in Japan)
Alex Peer (M.S. 2012 –> Ph.D. student 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:

Sky Wang (2019-2021 –> Ph.D. student at Columbia)
Jiaxin Ying (2020-2021 –> MCS at UIUC)
Qingyi Chen (2020-2021 –> M.S. student at UMich)
Sayan Ghosh (2019-2021)
Sarah Fillwock (2015-2018 –> Ph.D. student at Emory)
James Finch (2015-2018 –> Ph.D. student at Emory)
Kenneth Stewart (2017-2018 –> Ph.D. student 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)