Utah NLP People

Faculty

Ana Marasović

Vivek Srikumar

Current doctoral students

Oliver Bentham

Atreya Ghosal

Ashim Gupta

Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori

Mattia Medina Grespan

Maitrey Mehta

Nate Stringham

Zhichao Xu

Current masters students

Purbid Bambroo

Kushagra Dixit

Alex Gill

Yash Lele

Adwait Shinganwade

Current undergraduate researchers

Catherine Bao

Braden Fiedel

Atharv Kulkarni

Casey Miller

Kishan Thambu

Tanya Yu

Former Members

Faculty

• Ellen Riloff, Faculty → Computer Science Department Head at University of Arizona

Doctoral Students

• Zhenduo Wang, Ph.D., 2024 → Postdoc at Georgia Tech
  • Thesis: Modeling Mixed-initiative Conversational Search
• Yuan Zhuang, Ph.D., 2024 → Applied Scientist at Amazon
  • Thesis: Recognizing Affective Events and Embodied Emotions in Natural Language
• Vivek Gupta, Ph.D., 2023 → Postdoc at UPenn → Assistant Professor at Arizona State University
  • Thesis: Inference and Reasoning for Semi-structured Tables
• Tianyu Jiang, Ph.D., 2023 → Assistant Professor, Computer Science department at the University of Cincinnati
  • Thesis: Commonsense Knowledge of Prototypical Functions for Natural Language Processing
• Yichu Zhou, Ph.D., 2023 → Researcher at Yahoo
  • Thesis: Discovering and Applying Geometric Properties for Probing Contextualized Representations
• Jie Cao, Ph.D., 2022 → Postdoc at University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Thesis: Inductive Biases for Deep Linguistic Structured Prediction via Independent Factorization
• Tao Li, Ph.D., 2022 → Google Research
  • Thesis: Neural Learning with Logic for Data Efficiency
• Xingyuan Pan, Ph.D., 2019 → Amazon
  • Thesis: Understanding Constraints in Structured Prediction Problems
• Haibo Ding, Ph.D., 2018 → Bosch Research → Amazon AWS AI
  • Thesis: Affective Polarity Recognition and Human Needs Categorization for Affective Events
• Youngjun Kim, Ph.D., 2017 → Medical University of South Carolina
• Ashequl Qadir, Ph.D., 2016 → Philips Research → Wayfair
  • Thesis: Acquiring Knowledge For Affective State Recognition In Social Media
• Ruihong Huang, Ph.D., 2014 → Postdoc at Stanford → Associate Professor at Texas A&M University
  • Thesis: Improving Event Extraction by Discourse-Guided and Multi-Faceted Event Recognition
• Siddharth Patwardhan, Ph.D., 2010 → IBM Research → Apple
  • Thesis: Widening the Field of View of Information Extraction through Sentential Event Recognition
• David Bean, Ph.D., 2004 → Attensity
  • Thesis: Acquisition and Application of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution

Masters Researchers

• Michael Clemens, MS, 2024 → PhD student, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Gurunath Parasaram, MS, 2024 → AI Engineer at EXL Health
• Rishanth Rajendhran, MS, 2024 → PhD student at University of Maryland
• Giorgi Kvernadze, MS, 2020 → Route → SiriusXM/Pandora
• Maitrey Mehta, MS, 2020 → PhD student, UtahNLP
• Annie Cherkaev, MS, 2019 → Galois → Marqeta
  • Thesis: SweetPea: A Language for Experimental Design
• Nic Bertagnolli, MS, 2016 → 3M → Chief AI Officer at mpathic.ai
• Sean Igo, MS, 2007
  • Thesis: Identifying Reduced Passive Voice Constructions in Shallow Parsing Environments
• William Phillips, MS, 2007
  • Thesis: Exploiting Strong Syntactic Heuristics and Co-Training to Learn Semantic Lexicons
• David Price, MS, 2007
  • Thesis: Using a 'Wizard of Oz' Study to Evaluate a Spoken Language Interface for Programming
• Michael Thelen, MS, 2001
  • Thesis: Simultaneous Generation of Domain-Specific Lexicons for Multiple Semantic Categories
• Jeffrey Lorenzen, MS, 1999
  • Thesis: Exploiting Redundancy to Improve Machine Learning

Undergraduate Researchers

• Byron Liu, BS, 2024
  • Thesis: Dating Ancient Greek Documents with Vision Transformers
• Jordan Tan, BS, 2024 → MS student at Kalhert School of Computing, University of Utah
• Jacob Johnson, BA, 2023 → PhD student, UtahNLP → MS student at Weber State University
• Richard Timpson, BS, 2021 → Software Engineer at Salesforce → Route
• Tarun Sunkaraneni, BS, 2020 → Microsoft
• Maks Cegielski-Johnson, BS, 2018 → Microsoft
• Oliver Richardson, BS, 2017 → PhD student at Cornell
• Tobin Yehle, BS, 2016 → 3M
• Jessica Purcell (formerly Shepard), BS, 1998 → Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
• Kiri Wagstaff, BS, 1997 → Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Dana EeJae Ahn, BS
• Brandon Harvey, BS
• Rich Warren, BS