computational language understanding lab

Faculty

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

Eduardo Blanco, Computer Science

Gus Hahn-Powell, Linguistics

Peter Jansen (@peterjansen_ai), School of Information

Clayton Morrison, School of Information, Statistics GIDP

Adarsh Pyarelal, School of Information

Ellen Riloff (@ellenriloff), Computer Science

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

Postdocs, Research Scientists

Egoitz Laparra, School of Information

Marco A. Valenzuela-Escarcega, Computer Science

Enrique Noriega, Computer Science

Students

Fahmida Alam, Computer Science

Maria Alexeeva, Linguistics

John Culnan, Linguistics

Enfa Rose George, Computer Science

Shahriar Golchin, Computer Science

Asiful Islam, Computer Science

Bulut Özler, School of Information

Mahdi Rahimi, Computer Science

Haris Riaz, Computer Science

Sarah Stueve, School of Information

Xin Su, School of Information

Robert Vacareanu, Computer Science

Zeyu Zhang, School of Information

Yiyun Zhao, Linguistics

Andrew Lee Zupon, Linguistics

Research Programmers

Keith Alcock, Computer Science

Alumni

Zhengzhong Liang obtained his PhD in 2023. He is currently at Google.

Mithun Paul obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2022. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at USC.

Hoang Nguyen Hung Van obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2022. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at UC Boulder.

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

Zheng Tang obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2022. He is currently a research scientist at Samsung.

Dongfang Xu obtained his PhD in Information in 2021. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Vikas Yadav obtained his PhD in Information in 2021. He is currently a Research Scientist at Amazon.

Farig Sadeque obtained his PhD in Information in 2019. He is currently a Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service (ETS).

Ajay Nagesh was a postdoc in the lab until December 2018. He is now at Didi Labs.

Gustave Hahn-Powell obtained his PhD in Linguistics in 2018. He is currently faculty in Linguistics at UA, as well as a co-founder of lum.ai.

Dane Bell obtained his PhD in Linguistics in 2018. He is currently at lum.ai, which he co-founded.

Thomas Hicks was a research programmer in our group. He now resides in the School of Information at UA.

Rebecca Sharp obtained her PhD in Linguistics in 2017 and is now a Research Scientist at Lex Machina.

Peter Jansen was a postdoc in this lab before he obtained his position in the School of Information.

Marco A. Valenzuela-Escarcega obtained his PhD in 2016 and is now a research scientist in the CLU lab, as well as a co-founder of lum.ai.

Daniel Fried, Computer Science, now assistant professor at CMU

Anh Tran, PhD Computer Science, now at Google

Enrique Noriega, PhD School of Information, now a postdoc in the CLU lab