Utah NLP People

Faculty

Ana Marasović

Ellen Riloff

Vivek Srikumar

Current graduate students

Vivek Gupta

Ashim Gupta

Tianyu Jiang

Mattia Medina Grespan

Maitrey Mehta

Nate Stringham

Zhenduo Wang

Yichu Zhou

Yuan Zhuang

Current undergraduate researchers

Jacob Johnson

Alumni

Doctoral Students

• Tao Li, Ph.D., 2022 → Google Research.
  • Thesis: Neural Learning with Logic for Data Efficiency
• Jie Cao, Ph.D., 2022 → Postdoc at University of Colorado, Boulder.
  • Thesis: Inductive Biases for Deep Linguistic Structured Prediction via Independent Factorization
• Xingyuan Pan, Ph.D., 2019 → Amazon.
  • Thesis: Understanding Constraints in Structured Prediction Problems
• Haibo Ding, Ph.D., 2018 → Bosch Research.
  • Thesis: Affective Polarity Recognition and Human Needs Categorization for Affective Events
• Youngjun Kim, Ph.D., 2017 → Medical University of South Carolina.
  • Thesis: Improving Information Extraction from Clinical Notes with Multiple Domain Models and Clustering-based Instance Selection
• 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 Students

• Giorgi Kvernadze, MS, 2020 → Route.
• Annie Cherkaev, MS, 2019 → Galois.
  • Thesis: SweetPea: A Language for Experimental Design
• Nic Bertagnolli, MS, 2016 → 3M.
• William Phillips, MS.
  • Thesis: Exploiting Strong Syntactic Heuristics and Co-Training to Learn Semantic Lexicons
• David Price, MS.
  • Thesis: Using a 'Wizard of Oz' Study to Evaluate a Spoken Language Interface for Programming
• Michael Thelen, MS.
  • Thesis: Simultaneous Generation of Domain-Specific Lexicons for Multiple Semantic Categories
• Sean Igo, MS.
  • Thesis: Identifying Reduced Passive Voice Constructions in Shallow Parsing Environments
• Jeffrey Lorenzen, MS.
  • Thesis: Exploiting Redundancy to Improve Machine Learning

Undergrauate Researchers

• 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.
• Kiri Wagstaff, BS, 1997 → Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
• Jessica Purcell (formerly Shepard), BS → Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University.
• Brandon Harvey, BS.
• Rich Warren, BS.