Faculty
Joyce Y. Chai
Professor
Ph.D. Students
Josue Torres-Fonseca
Ph.D. Student
Embodied Agents, Spoken Language Understanding, Situated Dialogue, Language Grounding, Cognitive development
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
Students
Jacob Sansom
Graduate Research Assistant
Language Acquisition, Continual Learning, Cognitive Modeling
Xuweiyi Chen
Graduate Research Assistant
Natural Language Processing, 3D Computer Vision, Causal Inference
Zekun "Anderson" Wang
Graduate Research Assistant
Language Acquisition, Compositionality, Cognitive Modeling
Zheyuan "Brian" Zhang
Graduate Research Assistant
Multimodal Learning, Continual Learning, Embodied Intelligence
Alumni
Ph.D. Alumni:
- Cristian-Paul Bara (Ph.D. 2023 –> Bosch)
- 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:
- Nikhil Devraj (M.S. 2022-2023)
- Ruohua Harold Li (M.S. 2021-2023 –> Gatik)
- Barrett Lattimer (M.S. 2021-2022)
- Wenfei Tang (M.S. 2021-2022 –> IMC Trading)
- 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:
- Jiayi Pan (2021-2023 –> Ph.D. at UCB)
- Qianqi Yan (2021-2023 –> Ph.D. at UCSC)
- Xiaoyang Nick Hu (2021-2022)
- Xingyao Wang (2021-2022 –> 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 –> Ph.D. at USC)
- 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)