NLP X Lab
Group outings in 2021 with social distance.
Current Students:
Mounica Maddela (PhD student; text generation, ranking model)
Chao Jiang (PhD student; semantics, structured model)
Yao Dou (PhD student; text generation, evaluation)
Tarek Naous (PhD student; multilingual NLP, social media)
Duong Minh Le
(PhD student; dialog, controllable text generation -- co-advisor: Alan Ritter)
Yang Chen (PhD student; information extraction, transfer learning -- co-advisor: Alan Ritter)
Junmo Kang (PhD student; language model efficiency -- co-advisor: Alan Ritter)
Jonathan Zheng (Undergrad, autumn 2020 -- ; robustness, social media
EMNLP'22)
David Heineman (Undergrad, winter 2020 -- ; generation evaluation)
Michael Ryan (Undergrad, winter 2020 -- ; text simplification)
Vishnu Suresh (Undergrad, autumn 2021 -- ; medical NLP)
Marcus Ma (Undergrad, spring 2022 -- ; stylistics)
Alexandra Soong (Undergrad, spring 2022 -- )
Vishnesh Jayanthi (Undergrad, summer 2022 -- )
Rachel Choi (Undergrad, summer 2022 -- )
Ian Ligon (Undergrad, summer 2022 -- )
Anton Lavrouk (Undergrad, autumn 2022 -- )
Vinayak Athavale (Undergrad, autumn 2022 -- )
Govind Ramesh (Undergrad, winter 2022 -- )
Grace Kim (Undergrad, spring 2023 -- )
Yimeng Jiang (Undergrad, spring 2023 -- )
PhD Thesis Committee:
Sarah Wiegreffe (PhD @GaTech, 2022; interpretability/explainable AI - advisor: Mark Riedl)
Yuval Pinter (PhD @GaTech, 2021; interpretability/semantics/morphology - advisor: Jacob Eisenstein)
Sanqiang Zhao (PhD @UPitt, 2021; text simplification - advisor: Daqing He)
Shi Zong (PhD @OSU, 2020; computational social science - advisor: Alan Ritter)
Kai Cao (PhD @NYU, 2017; information extraction - advisor: Ralph Grishman)
Maria Pershina (PhD @NYU, 2014; information extraction
ACL'14 - advisor: Ralph Grishman)
Former Student Advisees:
Wuwei Lan (PhD @OSU, 2021; semantics
ACL'21 EMNLP'20'17 COLING'18 NAACL'18 → researcher at Amazon)
Jeniya Tabassum (PhD @OSU, 2021; social media
ACL'20 EMNLP'16 - co-advisor: Alan Ritter → lecturer at OSU)
Chaitanya Kulkarni (PhD @OSU; biology protocols
NAACL'18b - advisor: Raghu Machiraju)
Yang Zhong (MS @OSU, 2021; stylistics
EMNLP-F'21 AAAI'20 → phd at UPitt)
Mingkun Gao (MS @UPenn; crowdsourcing/MT
NAACL'15 - advisor: Chris Callison-Burch → phd at UIUC)
Siyu Qiu (MS @UPenn; semantics
EMNLP'17 → Hulu)
Piyush Ghai (MS @OSU; semantics → Amazon)
Daniel Joongwon Kim (Undergrad @UPenn; generation
EMNLP'21 - advisor: Chris Callison-Burch → phd at UW)
Jim Chen (Undergrad @UPenn; crowdsourcing
HCOMP'14 TACL'16 - advisor: Chris Callison-Burch → phd at UW)
Ray Lei (Undergrad @UPenn; crowdsourcing
HCOMP'14 → Microsoft)
Wenchao Du (Undergrad @UWaterloo; dialog
AAAI'17 SAP - advisor: Pascal Poupart → MS at CMU LTI)
Sydney Lee (Undergrad @OSU; linguistic annotation
WNUT'20 → Capital One)
Sam Stevens (Undergrad @OSU; scientific writing → phd at OSU)
Ema Goh (Undergrad; text simplification)
Dylan Small (Undergrad; generation)
Mohamed Ghanem (Undergrad; multilingual NLP)
Brian Seeds (Undergrad; user interface)
Daniel Szoke (Undergrad; offensive language)
Sarah Flanagan (Undergrad; linguistic annotation)
Andrew Duffy (Undergrad; ; linguistic annotation)
Kenneth Koepcke (Undergrad; linguistic annotation)
Renliang Sun (Graduate intern, Peking Univ., summer/fall 2022; training BART/RoBERTa variations)
Srushti Nandu (Undergrad intern, summer 2021 - spring 2022; social media)
Panya Bhinder (High school intern, summer 2020)
Solomon Wood (High school intern, spring 2020)
Muji Lai (High school intern, spring 2022)
Service
I am a NAACL executive board member, a senior area chair for EMNLP 2022 (generation), NAACL 2022 (machine learning for NLP), 2021 (generation), and ACL 2020 (generation), and an area chair for ACL 2023 (semantics), EMNLP 2021 (computational social science), EMNLP 2020 (generation), AAAI 2020 (NLP), ACL 2019 (semantics), NAACL 2019 (generation), EMNLP 2018 (social media), COLING 2018 (semantics), EMNLP 2016 (generation), a workshop chair for ACL 2017, and the publicity chair for EMNLP 2019, NAACL 2018 and 2016. I also created a new undergraduate course on Social Media and Text Analytics.