People

Faculty

• Wei Ai: Assistant Professor, College of Information and UMIACS.
• Cody Buntain: Assistant Professor, College of Information and UMIACS.
• Marine Carpuat: Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS.
• Hal Daumé III: Volpi-Cupal Family Endowed Professor, Computer Science and Language Science, and UMIACS; Director, AIM and TRAILS.
• Naomi Feldman: Professor, Linguistics and UMIACS; Affiliate Professor, Computer Science and NACS.
• Vanessa Frías Martínez: Associate Professor, College of Information and UMIACS; Affiliate Associate Professor, Computer Science.
• Mohit Iyyer: Associate Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS.
• Julia Mendelsohn: Assistant Professor, College of Information and UMIACS.
• Douglas W. Oard: Professor, College of Information and UMIACS; Affiliate Professor, Computer Science and AMSC.
• Louiqa Raschid: Professor, Smith School of Business and UMIACS; Affiliate Professor, Computer Science.
• Philip Resnik: Professor, Linguistics and UMIACS; Affiliate Professor, Computer Science.
• Rachel Rudinger: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS.
• Sarah Wiegreffe: Assistant Professor, Computer Science.
• Tianyi Zhou: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS.

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Emeritus / Associated Faculty

• Jordan Boyd-Graber: Professor, Computer Science, UMIACS, College of Information, and the Language Science Center. Now Professor at Nanyang Technological University
• David Doermann: Research Scientist, UMIACS. Now SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at Buffalo. [1]
• Bonnie J. Dorr: Professor Emerita, Computer Science and UMIACS. Now University of Florida Professor.
• Mary Harper: Affiliate Research Professor, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and UMIACS
• Judith Klavans: Visiting Senior Research Scientist, UMIACS
• Jimmy Lin: Associate Professor, the iSchool and UMIACS, now at University of Waterloo.
• Amy Weinberg: Professor, Department of Linguistics and UMIACS

Researchers and Post-Docs

• Samer Nour Eddine: Postdoc, Language Science Center

Graduate Students

• Nishant Balepur: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Connor Baumler: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Calvin Bao: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Yapei Chang: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Hiba El Oirghi: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Maharshi Gor: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Navita Goyal: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Fenfei Guo: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Feng Gu: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• HyoJung Han: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Cassidy Henry: Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics
• Yu (Hope) Hou: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Dayeon (Zoey) Ki: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Yekyung Kim: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Meiyu (Emily) Li: Ph.D. student, iSchool
• Zongxia Li: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Andrés López: Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics
• Ishani Mondal: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Sathvik Nair: Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics
• Tin Nguyen: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Phuong (Kem) Nguyen-Le: Ph.D. student, iSchool
• Hillary Owusu: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Shramay Palta: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Chau Minh Pham: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Rishanth Rajendhran: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Kartik Ravisankar: Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation (AMSC) Program
• Joselyn Rodriguez: Ph.D. student, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
• Nate Rollings: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Jenna Russell: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Sandra Sandoval: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Rupak Sarkar: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Annika Shankwitz: Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics
• Neha Srikanth: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Carmen Tang: Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics
• Hieu Trung Tran: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Wichayaporn (Joy) Wongkamjan: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Paiheng Xu: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Xinchen Yang: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Ruijie Zheng: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Lydia Ysabel Quevedo: Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics
• Osvaldo Quinjica: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Huy Nghiem: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Christabel Acquaye: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Pritika Ramu: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Liancheng "Krystal" Gong: Ph.D. student, College of Information
• Riley Lankes: Ph.D. student, College of Information
• Tasnim Kabir: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Stephen Cheng: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Surendra Kumar Chandrasekaran: M.S. student, Applied Machine Learning
• Ashwath David: M.S. student, Data Science
• Disha Jain: M.S. student, Artificial Intelligence
• Tanaya Joshi: M.S. student, Data Science
• Connor Dilgren: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Yik Siu Chan: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science
• Eesha Kurella: M.S. student, Department of Computer Science

Undergraduate Students

• Atrey Desai: Undergraduate student, Department of Computer Science
• Jane Oh: Undergraduate student, Department of Computer Science

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CLIP Alumni

Researchers and postdocs

• Hadi Amiri: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Amittai Axelrod: AI/ML Researcher, Apple
• Joe Barrow: AI Research Scientist, Pattern Data
• Shohini Bhattasali: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
• Jordan Boyd-Graber (2010): Associate Professor, University of Maryland
• Mari Broman-Olsen: Senior progam manager, Natural Language Experiences, Microsoft
• David Chiang: Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
• Tamer Elsayed: Professor, Qatar University
• Petra Galuščáková: Associate Professor, University of Stavanger
• Utpal Garain: Professor (Higher Academic Grade), Indian Statistical Institute
• Zara Harmon: Senior Investigator, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• Daqing He: Professor and Chair, University of Pittsburgh
• Kristy Hollingshead: Data Scientist, Further
• Rebecca Hwa: Professor and Chair, George Washington University
• Doug Jones: Researcher, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Youngjoong Ko: Professor, Sungkyunkwan University
• Rebecca LaPlante: Branch Manager, Richard Byrd Library, Fairfax County Public Library
• Gina-Anne Levow: Professor, University of Washington
• Junhui Li: Associate Professor, Soochow University
• Saif M. Mohammad: Research Scientist, National Research Council Canada
• Christof Monz: Professor and Chair of Language Technology, University of Amsterdam
• Taesun Moon: AI Researcher, Vatic Labs
• Smaranda Muresan: Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Barnard College; Amazon Scholar
• Jiaul Hoque Paik: Associate Professor, IIT Kharagpur
• Thomas Schatz: Assistant Professor, Aix-Marseille Université
• Hendra Setiawan: Scientist, Apple
• Carolyn Sheffield: IT Project Manager, The Nature Conservancy
• Tokinori Suzuki: Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba
• Andreas Thor: Professor, HTWK Leipzig
• Yuen-Hsien Tseng: Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan Normal University
• Maria-Esther Vidal: Professor, Leibniz University Hannover; Head, TIB Scientific Data Management Research Group
• Earl J. Wagner: Technology Lead, Paths
• William Webber: Consultant, Codalism
• Ryen W. White: Applied Science, Microsoft
• Sinead Williamson (2011): Machine Learning Researcher, Apple; Adjunct Professor, University of Texas at Austin
• Adnan Yahya: Professor, Birzeit University
• Vladimir Zadorozhny: Professor, University of Pittsburgh
• Daniel Zeman: Research Associate and Docent, Charles University
• Jieyu Zhao: WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Ph.D. Students

• Haozhe An: Applied Scientist, Amazon
• Yang (Trista) Cao: Applied Scientist, Amazon
• Abhilasha Sancheti: Applied Scientist, Amazon AWS AI
• Kyle Seelman: Machine Learning Engineer, Roblox
• Anna Sotnikova: EPFL NLP Lab
• Yoo Yeon Sung: Applied Scientist, Hippocratic AI
• Jiahui Wu
• Yuhang Zhou: Research Scientist, Meta
• Arvind Agarwal: Researcher, IBM Research India
• Sweta Agrawal: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
• Nima Asadi
• Necip Fazil Ayan
• Mossaab Bagdouri: Data Scientist, Walmart Global Tech
• Kianté Brantley: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
• Eleftheria Briakou: Research Scientist, Google
• Laura Bright
• Ya-Hui Chang: Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University
• Snigdha Chaturvedi: Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research, Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Waiyian Chong
• Leonardo Claudino: Staff Scientist, NIMH/NIH
• Kareem Darwish: Research Scientist, aiXplain
• Dina Demner-Fushman: Senior Investigator, Computational Health Research Branch, National Library of Medicine
• Mona Diab: Director and Full Professor, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• Chris Dyer
• Vladimir “Vlad” Eidelman: Product and Technology Lead, Thalamus
• Irene Eleta
• Ahmed Elgohary: Researcher, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers
• Allyson Ettinger: Research Scientist, Allen Institute for AI
• Ruolan Leslie Famularo
• Shi Feng: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, George Washington University
• Denis Filimonov: Research Scientist, Amazon
• Ning Gao: Applied Scientist, Microsoft
• Pranav Goel: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
• Sergey Golitsynskiy
• Amit Goyal: Applied Scientist, Amazon Music
• Rebecca Green: Retired Dewey Editorial Program Manager, OCLC
• Stephan Greene: AI Lead, Converseon
• Alvin Grissom II: Associate Professor of Computer Science, Haverford College
• Raul David Guerra
• Nizar Habash: Professor of Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi; Director, CAMeL Lab
• Eric Hardisty: DoD Contractor
• He He: Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, New York University
• Hua He
• Kasia Hitczenko: Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware
• Lingzi Hong: Associate Professor of Data Science, University of North Texas; Affiliated Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Alexander Miserlis Hoyle: Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH Zürich AI Center
• Zhongqiang “ZQ” Huang: Co-founder, Ultravox AI
• Chang Hu: Software Engineer, Compass
• Yuening Hu
• Mohit Iyyer: Associate Professor, University of Maryland
• Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi
• Jiarong Jiang: Applied Scientist, AWS
• Darsana P. Josyula: Professor of Computer Science, Bowie State University; Director, Autonomous Technologies Laboratory
• Nika Jurov: Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Oregon
• John Kanu: Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science
• Maria Katsova
• Jinmook Kim: Professor of Data Science, Kangnam University
• Okan Kolak: Engineer, OpenAI
• Yakov Kronrod: AI-Safety and Public-Interest Advocate
• Abhishek Kumar: Applied Scientist, Amazon AGI
• Grecia Lapizco Encinas: Data Scientist, Bechtel
• Woei-jyh (Adam) Lee: Associate Clinical Professor, Information Systems and Business Analytics, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
• Adam Lopez: Reader, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
• Jun Luo
• Nitin Madnani: Research Scientist, Duolingo
• Marianna Martindale: Secretary, Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
• Yuval Marton: Independent AI/NLP Consultant and Researcher; Affiliate Professor, University of Washington
• Levon Mkrtchyan: Engineer, Stripe
• Joseph Naft: Director, Maryland Industrial Partnerships; Director, ASPIRE, Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, University of Maryland
• Suraj Nair: Applied Scientist, Core Search, Amazon
• Khanh Nguyen: Applied Scientist, Microsoft
• Thang Nguyen: Applied Scientist, Zillow
• Viet-An Nguyen: Research Scientist, Central Applied Science, Meta
• Xing Niu: Applied Scientist, Amazon
• J. Scott Olsson: Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, Wyoming Catholic College
• Naho Orita: Associate Professor, School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University
• Lisa Pearl: Professor, Department of Language Science, University of California, Irvine
• Denis Peskoff: Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley School of Information
• Stacy Hobson: Responsible Technology Researcher, IBM Research
• Xin Qian
• Jinfeng Rao: Machine Learning Engineer, Pinterest
• Aquia Richburg: Data Scientist, National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants
• Alejandro Rodríguez-Morantes: Software Engineer, Truveta
• Pedro Rodriguez: AI Research Scientist, Meta FAIR
• Kristine M. Rogers
• Grazia Russo-Lassner: Consultant, AWS Professional Services
• Mahmoud F. Sayed
• Asad Basheer Sayeed: Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Gothenburg
• Hans (Hassan) Sayyadi: AI Lead, Dropbox
• Wade Shen
• Han-Chin Shing: Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services
• Matthew Snover: Research Scientist, RTX BBN Technologies
• Alison M. Smith-Renner: AI Researcher and Engineer, Dataminr
• Calandra Tate Moore: Data Scientist, U.S. Department of Defense
• Scott Thomas
• Craig Thorburn: Assistant Instructional Professor, Linguistics, University of Chicago
• Alayo Tripp: Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Florida
• Ferhan Ture: AI Engineer, Comcast
• Jyothi K. Vinjumur: Lecturer, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
• Clare R. Voss: Computer Scientist, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
• Yogarshi Vyas: Applied Scientist, Amazon
• Nathaniel “Nate” Waisbrot
• Jianqiang Wang: Associate Professor of Information Science, University at Buffalo
• Lidan Wang
• Yulu Wang
• Shanchan Wu
• Yejun Wu: In memoriam; formerly Associate Professor, LSU School of Information Studies
• Yao Wu
• Tan Xu
• Weijia Xu: Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Weiwei Yang: Researcher, Zhejiang Lab
• David Michael Zajic
• Ke Zhai: Research Scientist, Apple
• Chen Zhao: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU Shanghai
• Lingjun Zhao: Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science
• Jiuhai Chen
• Saad Mohammad Abrar

MS Students

• Yow-Ting Shiue: AI Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Foundation
• Yusen (Samuel) Lin
• Andrew Mao: Software Engineer, Apple
• David Alexander: Cloud Engineer, Accenture Federal Services
• Aitziber Atutxa Salazar: Associate Professor, Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque Country
• Jacob “Jake” Bremerman: Ph.D. Student and Graduate Research Assistant, USC Information Sciences Institute
• Clara Cabezas: World Languages Teacher, The Madeira School
• Jacob Devlin: AI Researcher, Google
• Peter Enns: Software Engineer, Amazon
• Emily Gong: Software Engineer, GitHub
• Ed Kenschaft
• Govind Kothari
• John Morgan
• Jackie Nelligan
• Elijah Rippeth
• Gregory Sanders: Bitcoin Developer, Spiral
• Rashmi Sankepally: Data Scientist, Weber Shandwick
• Aga Skotowski
• Ruth Sperer
• Michael Subotin: Research Engineer, Solventum Health Information Systems
• Ke Wu: Software Engineer, Google
• Eric Hardisty: DoD Contractor

Undergraduate Students

• Kamala Sreepada: Software Engineer, Uber
• Eric Bennett
• Sander Schulhoff: Founder, Learn Prompting and HackAPrompt
• Saahiti Potluri’’’: BlackRock
• Nhat Pham: Linux Kernel Developer, Meta
• Naveen Raman: Ph.D. Student, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University; M.Phil., University of Cambridge
• Konstantine Kahadze: Developer Experience Engineer, OpenAI
• Chenglei Si: Ph.D. Student, Stanford NLP, Stanford University
• Chiebuka Ohams: Technical Associate, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
• Arjun Akkiraju: Software Engineer, Arena Physica
• Olivia Buzek: AI Engineer, IBM
• Aaron Elkiss: Enterprise Architect, HathiTrust, University of Michigan Library
• Andrew Fister: Software Engineer, GridX
• Meir Friedenberg: Applied Scientist, Amazon; Ph.D., Computer Science, Cornell University
• Ayelet Goldin
• Gregory Marton
• Ederlyn Lacson: Software Engineer, Microsoft
• Jesse Metcalf-Burton: Director, Data Science Development Program, U.S. Department of Defense
• Eric Nichols: Research Scientist, Honda Research Institute Japan
• Noah A. Smith: Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence and Professor, University of Washington; NLP Research, Allen Institute for AI
• Jessica Stevens
• Bryan Toth
• Michael Wasser: Founder, Exactly Labs; Co-founder and Practice Manager, Neuranimus
• Levon Mkrtchyan: Engineer, Stripe