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

Faculty

Laure Thompson

Cultural analytics, interpretability, data-centric interventions

Mohit Iyyer

Text generation, QA, representation learning, narratives

Brendan O'Connor

Computational social science, social factors in NLP

Andrew McCallum

Machine learning, information extraction, knowledge bases

Postdocs

Marzena Karpinska

PhD students

Dhruv Agarwal

Nader Akoury

Maha Alkhairy

Rico Angell

Erica Cai

Yapei Chang

Shib Sankar Dasgupta

Andrew Drozdov

Ankita Gupta

Marisa Hudspeth

Neha Kennard

Yekyung Kim

Sheshera Mysore

Tessa Masis

Dhruvesh Patel

Chau Pham

Benjamin Rozonoyer

Yixiao Song

Simeng Sun

Dung Thai

Katherine Thai

Shufan Wang

Nishant Yadav

Wenlong Zhao

Alumni

Some recent and past UMass NLP alumni. (Incomplete list - still under construction. See also IESL alumni list.)

• Dongxu Zhang (PhD, 2023) → Researcher, ASAPP
• Tu Vu (PhD, 2023) → Research Scientist, Google and Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
• Kalpesh Krishna (PhD, 2023) → Research Scientist, Google Bard
• Haw-Shiuan Chang (PhD, 2022) → Postdoctoral Researcher, Amazon Alexa AI
• Xiang Lorraine Li (PhD, 2022) → Young Investigator, AI2 → Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh (starting 2023)
• Jay-Yoon Lee (Postdoc, 2022) → Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
• Michael Boratko (Postdoc, 2022) → Research Scientist, Google Brain
• Subendhu Rongali (PhD, 2022) → Amazon Alexa AI
• Rajarshi Das (PhD, 2022) → Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington → Amazon
• Nicholas Monath (PhD, 2021) → Research Scientist, Google
• Trapit Bansal (PhD, 2021) → Research Scientist, Open AI
• Katherine Keith (PhD, 2021) → Young Investigator, AI2 (starting 2021) → Assistant Professor, Williams College (starting 2022)
• Abram Handler (PhD, 2021) → Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Tim O'Gorman (Postdoc, 2019-2020) → Senior Research Scientist, Thorn
• Pedram Rooshenas (Postdoc, 2020) → Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• Luke Vilnis (PhD, 2020) → Research Scientist, Google
• Craig Greenberg (PhD, 2020) → Multimodal Information Group, NIST
• Su Lin Blodgett (PhD, 2020) → Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Jeffrey Flanigan (Postdoc, 2018-2019) → Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Emma Strubell (PhD, 2019) → Visiting Researcher, Facebook AI Research → Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
• 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 Utah
• Claire Cardie (PhD, 1994, advisor Wendy Lehnert) → … → Professor, Cornell University