computational language understanding lab

Faculty

Steven Bethard, Information Science, Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Science

Eduardo Blanco, Computer Science

Gus Hahn-Powell, Linguistics

Peter Jansen (@peterjansen_ai), Information Science

Clayton Morrison, Information Science, Statistics GIDP

Adarsh Pyarelal, Information Science

Haw-Shiuan Chang, Information Science

Lingyao Li, Information Science

Ellen Riloff (@ellenriloff), Computer Science

Mihai Surdeanu (@msurd), Computer Science, Linguistics, Cognitive Science

Postdocs, Research Scientists

Egoitz Laparra, Information Science

Students

Fahmida Alam, Computer Science

Aunabil Chakma, Computer Science

Enfa Fane (prev: Enfa George), Computer Science

Xinyu Guo, Computer Science

Caroline Campbell Hyland, Computer Science

Md Asiful Islam, Computer Science

Oghenevovwe Ikumariegbe, Computer Science

Ayesha Khatun, Information Science

Yeaeun Kwon, Information Science

Ruoshan Lan, Computer Science

Hojae Lee, Computer Science

Harshita Narnoli, Computer Science

Kadir Bulut Özler, Information Science

Haris Riaz, Computer Science

Saiful Islam Salim, Computer Science

Reza Sanayei, Computer Science

Sarah Stueve, Information Science

Jiacheng Zhang, Information Science

Tian Tan, Computer Science

Research Programmers

Keith Alcock, Computer Science

Alumni

Zijie Wang, 2026 PhD in Computer Science, now at Amazon.

Razvan Dumitru, 2025 PhD in Computer Science, now at Scale.AI.

Mahdi Rahimi, 2025 PhD in Computer Science.

MohammadHossein Rezaei, 2025 BS in Computer Science, now at Scale.AI.

Minglai Yang, 2025 BS in Computer Science, now at Scale.AI.

Portia Cooper, 2025 MS in Computer Science, now a PhD student at University of Washington.

Maria Alexeeva, 2025 PhD in Linguistics, now at Meta.

Xin Su, 2024 PhD in Information Science, now at Intel.

Robert Vacareanu, 2024 PhD in Computer Science, now at Scale.AI.

Shahriar Golchin, 2024 PhD in Computer Science, now at Google.

Andrew Lee Zupon, 2023 PhD in Linguistics, now at Google.

Zeyu Zhang, 2023 PhD in Information, is currently an applied scientist at Amazon.

Yiyun Zhao, 2022 PhD in Linguistics, is currently a machine learning scientist at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Zhengzhong Liang, 2023 PhD in Computer Science is currently a software engineer at Google.

Mithun Paul, 2022 PhD in Computer Science is currently an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at the Northern Arizona University.

Hoang Nguyen Hung Van, 2022 PhD in Computer Science is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School.

Fan Luo, 2022 PhD in Computer Science, is currently an applied scientist at Amazon Web Services.

Zheng Tang, 2022 PhD in Computer Science, is currently a senior researcher at Samsung Research America.

Dongfang Xu, 2021 PhD in Information, is currently a Research Data Scientist at Cedars-Sinai.

Vikas Yadav, 2021 PhD in Information, is currently a staff research scientist at ServiceNow.

John Culnan, 2021 PhD in Linguistics.

Enrique Noriega, 2020 PhD in Information, is currently a research scientist at Gyori Lab in Northeastern University.

Farig Sadeque, 2019 PhD in Information, is currently an associate professor at BRAC University.

Ajay Nagesh, postdoc in the lab until 2018, is currently a senior applied scientist at Amazon.

Gustave Hahn-Powell, 2018 PhD in Linguistics, is currently an assistant professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, as well as a co-founder of lum.ai.

Wendy Herongrove, 2018 PhD in Linguistics, is currently at lum.ai, which he co-founded.

Thomas Hicks, research programmer in our group until 2018, is currently a computing sciences researcher at the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona.

Rebecca Sharp, 2017 PhD in Linguistics, is now a Research Scientist at Lex Machina.

Marco A. Valenzuela-Escarcega, 2016 PhD in Computer Science, then a research scientist in the CLU lab, as well as a co-founder of lum.ai. Now at Lex Machina.

Daniel Fried, 2014 BS in Computer Science, is currently an assistant professor at CMU.

Anh Tran, 2014 PhD in Computer Science, is currently a software engineer at Google.

Peter Jansen, postdoc in the lab in 2013, is currently an associate professor in the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona.