Faculty
Joyce Y. Chai
Professor
Ph.D. Students
Keunwoo Peter Yu
Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with John E. Laird)
Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Architectures, Causal Reasoning, Commonsense Reasoning
Yinpei Dai
Ph.D. Student
Spoken Language Understanding, Dialogue Management, Natural Language Generation
Master’s Students
Ruohua "Harold" Li
Graduate Research Assistant
Language Grounding, Multimodal Learning, Computer Vision
Undergrad Students
Eui-In Kim
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jiayi Pan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Michael Xi
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Qianqi Yan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Xiaoyang "Nick" Hu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Yidong Huang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Alumni
Ph.D. Alumni:
- Qiaozi Gao (Ph.D. 2019 –> Amazon Alexa AI)
- 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 –> DMAI)
- Tyler Baldwin (Ph.D. 2012 –> IBM Almaden Research Center)
- Matt Gerber (Ph.D. 2011 –> Assistant Professor 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 –> Director, Language Resource Center, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
Master’s Alumni:
- Ben VanDerPloeg (M.S. 2021-2022)
- Tianrong Zhang (M.S. 2020-2022)
- 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:
- Xingyao Wang (2021-2021 –> Ph.D. at UIUC)
- Yingzhuo Yu (2021-2022 –> MCS at UIUC)
- Xinyu Lu (2021-2022 –> MIIS at CMU)
- Haoyi Qiu (2019-2022 –> M.S. at UCLA)
- Bri Epstein (2019-2022)
- Sky Wang (2019-2021 –> Ph.D. at Columbia)
- Jiaxin Ying (2020-2021 –> MCS at UIUC)
- Qingyi Chen (2020-2021 –> M.S. at UMich)
- Sayan Ghosh (2019-2021 –> ASAPP)
- Sarah Fillwock (2015-2018 –> Ph.D. at Emory)
- James Finch (2015-2018 –> Ph.D. at Emory)
- Kenneth Stewart (2017-2018 –> Ph.D. 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)