Alumni

Some UMass NLP PhD and postdoc alumni. (Incomplete list - still under construction. See also IESL alumni and CIIR alumni.)

  • Simeng Sun (PhD, 2024) → Research Scientist, Nvidia
  • Nader Akoury (PhD, 2024) → Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell University
  • Nishant Yadav (PhD, 2024) → Research Scientist, Google
  • Sheshera Mysore (PhD, 2024) → Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft
  • Dung Thai (PhD, 2024)
  • Andrew Drozdov (PhD, 2024) → Research Scientist, Databricks
  • Tu Vu (PhD, 2023) → Research Scientist, Google and Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
  • Dongxu Zhang (PhD, 2023) → Researcher, ASAPP
  • Kalpesh Krishna (PhD, 2023) → Research Scientist, Google Bard
  • Xiang Lorraine Li (PhD, 2022) → Young Investigator, AI2 → Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
  • Haw-Shiuan Chang (PhD, 2022) → Postdoctoral Researcher, Amazon AGI Foundations
  • Subendhu Rongali (PhD, 2022) → Amazon Alexa AI
  • Michael Boratko (Postdoc, 2022) → Research Scientist, Google Brain
  • Jay-Yoon Lee (Postdoc, 2022) → Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
  • Rajarshi Das (PhD, 2022) → Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington → AWS AI Labs
  • Katherine Keith (PhD, 2021) → Young Investigator, AI2 → Assistant Professor, Williams College
  • Nicholas Monath (PhD, 2021) → Research Scientist, Google
  • Abram Handler (PhD, 2021) → Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Trapit Bansal (PhD, 2021) → Research Scientist, Open AI
  • Craig Greenberg (PhD, 2020) → Multimodal Information Group, NIST
  • Tim O'Gorman (Postdoc, 2019-2020) → Senior Research Scientist, Thorn
  • Pedram Rooshenas (Postdoc, 2020) → Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  • Su Lin Blodgett (PhD, 2020) → Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
  • Luke Vilnis (PhD, 2020) → Research Scientist, Google
  • Emma Strubell (PhD, 2019) → Visiting Researcher, Facebook AI Research → Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Jeffrey Flanigan (Postdoc, 2018-2019) → Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Pat Verga (PhD, 2019) → Research Scientist, Google
  • David Belanger (PhD, 2017) → Research Scientist, Google Brain
  • Arvind Neelakantan (PhD, 2017) → Research Scientist, Google Brain → Research Lead, OpenAI
  • Sameer Singh (PhD, 2014) → Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington → Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
  • David Mimno (PhD, 2012) → CRA Computing Innovation Fellow, Princeton University → Associate Professor, Cornell University
  • Laura Dietz (Postdoc, 2010-2012) → … → Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire
  • Sebastian Riedel (Postdoc, 2009-2011) → … → Researcher, Facebook AI Research and Professor, University College London
  • Hanna Wallach (Postdoc, 2007-2010) → … → Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research and Adjunct Associate Professor, UMass Amherst
  • Charles Sutton (PhD, 2008) → … → Research Scientist, Google AI and Associate Professor at University of Edinburgh
  • Gideon Mann (Postdoc, 2007) → … → Head of Data Science, Bloomberg
  • Ellen Riloff (PhD, 1994, advisor Wendy Lehnert) → … → Professor, University of Arizona
  • Claire Cardie (PhD, 1994, advisor Wendy Lehnert) → … → Professor, Cornell University