We are the members of the UMass Natural Language Processing lab in CICS! This page contains current faculty, postdocs, and PhD students; see also our alumni and faculty affiliates.

Faculty

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Katrin Erk

CICS & Linguistics (starting Fall 2025)
Computational semantics

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Mohit Iyyer

Adjunct affiliate
Text generation, QA, narratives

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Andrew McCallum

Machine learning, information extraction, knowledge bases

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Brendan O'Connor

Computational social science, social factors in NLP

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Wenting Zhao

Starting Fall 2026
Reasoning, language modeling

PhD students