Meet the Team
Faculty
Diane Litman
Professor
Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval
PhD Student
Yuya Asano
PhD student
Dialogue Systems, AI in Education, Human-Computer Interaction
Mohamed Elaraby
PhD student
Natural Language Generation, Computational Argumentation, Text Summarization
Zhexiong Liu
PhD student
NLP for education, Computational Linguistics, Multimodal Machine Learning
Nhat Tran
PhD student
Knowledge-enhanced NLP, Computational Linguistics, Text Retrieval
Yang Zhong
PhD student
Text Generation, Computational Linguistics, Multimodal Machine Learning
Alumni
Tazin Afrin
CS PhD 2022 Dissertation –> ETS
Hua Ai
ISP PhD 2009 Dissertation –> Delta Airlines
Min Chi
ISP PhD 2009 Dissertation –> Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
Michael Lipschultz
CS PhD 2015 Dissertation –> Naval Air Systems Command
Luca Lugini
CS PhD 2020 Dissertation –> Ancestry
Wencan Luo
CS PhD 2017 Dissertation –> Google
Ahmed Magooda
CS PhD 2022 Dissertation –> Microsoft
Huy Nguyen
CS PhD 2017 Dissertation –> Amazon
Zahra Rahimi
ISP PhD 2019 Dissertation –> Amazon
Mihai Rotaru
CS PhD 2008 Dissertation –> head of R&D Textkernel
Arthur Ward
ISP PhD 2010 Dissertation
Wenting Xiong
CS PhD 2015 Dissertation –> Facebook
Mingzhi Yu
CS PhD 2021 Dissertation –> Amazon
Fan Zhang
CS PhD 2017 Dissertation –> Google
Haoran (Colin) Zhang
CS PhD 2020 Dissertation –> Meta
Other Alumni
Alumni: Research Associates
- Dr. Kate Forbes-Riley LRDC Now novelist
- Dr. Joel Tetreault LRDC Now Senior Director of Research, DataMinr
- Dr. Carrie Demmans Epp LRDC and CIDDE Now Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
- Dr. Yao Xiong LRDC and CIDDE Now at Pearson
Alumni: Masters Students
- Ravneet Singh, Computer Science, 2022
- Heather Friedberg, Computer Science (MS Project: Lexical Entrainment and Success in Student Engineering Groups), 2012 (now at Google)
- Beatriz Maeireizo-Tokeshi, Computer Science (MS Project: Applying Co-training for Predicting Student Emotions with Spoken Dialogue Data), 2005
- Amruta Purandare, Intelligent Systems
Alumni: Undergraduate Students (NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate Program (REU); University of Pittsburgh First Experiences in Research Program (FER))
- Cassandra Boutin, Psychology (FER, REU)
- Alexandra Brusilovsky, became graduate student, CMU
- Samantha Corcoran (REU), became graduate student, University of Pittsburgh
- Sonia Cromp (REU), became graduate student, University of Wisconsin
- Zane Denmon (FER)
- Joanna Drummond (REU), became graduate student, University of Toronto
- Heather Friedberg (REU), MS 2012, University of Pittsburgh (see above)
- Simran Gidwani (FER)
- Paige Haring, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Linguistics
- Anish Kumar, Linguistics & Spanish (REU), went to Amazon
- Mackenzie Marcinko (FER)
- Gregory Nicholas (REU), became graduate student, Brown University
- Nathan Ong (REU), now graduate student, University of Pittsburgh
- Rehana Saifee, Psychology & Economics (FER, REU)
- Sarah Serfilippi (FER)
- Chris Thomas, now graduate student, University of Pittsburgh
- Jesse Thomason (REU), became graduate student, University of Texas at Austin
- Zhengming Wang (FER)
- Robert Wei
- Shujun Yang (FER)
- Yu Yang (FER)
- Zinan Zhuang, Computer Science (FER)
Past Visitors
- Matthew Frampton, PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
- Reva Freedman, Professor, Northern Illinois University
- Ryoko Tokuhisa, Toyota Central R&D Labs (also PhD Student at Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Other Alumni
- Stefani Allegretti, research staff, LRDC
- Alison Huettner, consultant
- Caitlin Rice, graduate student researcher, LRDC and Psychology
- Scott Silliman, programmer, LRDC