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

Kalpesh Krishna

Sheshera Mysore

Tessa Masis

Dhruvesh Patel

Chau Pham

Benjamin Rozonoyer

Yixiao Song

Simeng Sun

Dung Thai

Katherine Thai

Tu Vu

Shufan Wang

Nishant Yadav

Wenlong Zhao

Dongxu Zhang

Alumni

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

• Rajarshi Das (PhD, 2022) → Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington
• Xiang Lorraine Li (PhD, 2022) → Young Investigator, AI2 → Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh (starting 2023)
• Haw-Shiuan Chang (PhD, 2022) → Postdoctoral Researcher, Amazon Alexa AI
• 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
• Trapit Bansal (PhD, 2021) → Research Scientist, Open AI
• Nicholas Monath (PhD, 2021) → Research Scientist, Google
• Abram Handler (PhD, 2021) → Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Katherine Keith (PhD, 2021) → Young Investigator, AI2 (starting 2021) → Assistant Professor, Williams College (starting 2022)
• 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
• Su Lin Blodgett (PhD, 2020) → Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Craig Greenberg (PhD, 2020) → Multimodal Information Group, NIST
• Jeffrey Flanigan (Postdoc, 2018-2019) → Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Pat Verga (PhD, 2019) → Research Scientist, Google
• Emma Strubell (PhD, 2019) → Visiting Researcher, Facebook AI Research → Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
• Arvind Neelakantan (PhD, 2017) → Research Scientist, Google Brain → Research Lead, OpenAI
• David Belanger (PhD, 2017) → Research Scientist, Google Brain
• Sameer Singh (PhD, 2014) → Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington → Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
• Laura Dietz (Postdoc, 2010-2012) → … → Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire
• David Mimno (PhD, 2012) → CRA Computing Innovation Fellow, Princeton University → Associate Professor, Cornell University
• 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