Current NLP Group Members

Professors

• Chris Manning, Computer Science and Linguistics
  • statistical natural language processing, information extraction, text understanding and text mining
• Dan Jurafsky, Linguistics
  • natural language understanding, conversational speech and dialog, NLP for the behavioral and social sciences

Research Scientists

• Mihai Surdeanu, Computer Science

Visiting Associate Professors

• Wanxiang Che, Computer Science

Research Programmer

• John Bauer, Computer Science

Postdocs

• Daniel Cer, Computer Science
• David McClosky, Computer Science
• Daniel Ramage, Computer Science
• Marta Recasens Linguistics

Ph.D. Students

• Gabor Angeli, Computer Science
• Angel Chang, Computer Science
• David Clausen, Linguistics
• Uriel Cohen-Priva, Linguistics
• Spence Green, Computer Science
• Sonal Gupta, Computer Science
• Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Linguistics
• Heeyoung Lee, Electrical Engineering
• Rob Munro, Linguistics
• Richard Socher, Computer Science
• Valentin Spitkovsky, Computer Science
• Mason Smith, Computer Science
• Adam Vogel, Computer Science
• Mengqiu Wang, Computer Science

Masters Students

• Eric Huang, Computer Science
• Nikhil Johri, Computer Science
• Kevin Reschke, Computer Science

Undergraduate Students

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Alumni/Alumnae

Ph.D. Students

• Jason Brenier, Linguistics (visitor from U. Colorado)
  • Now at Ernst & Young
• Nate Chambers, Computer Science
  • Now Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the United States Naval Academy
• Pi-Chuan Chang, Computer Science
  • Now at Google
• Jenny Finkel, Computer Science
  • Now a Computing Innovations Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University
• Sep Kamvar, Computer Science
  • Founder of Kaltix, acquired by Google, then engineering lead at Google, now Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford ICME.
• Dan Klein, Computer Science
  • Now Associate Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley
• Roger Levy, Linguistics
  • Now Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC San Diego
• Bill MacCartney, Computer Science
  • Now at Google (formerly Aardvark)
• Rion Snow, Computer Science
  • Now at Twitter
• Yun-Hsuan Sung, Electrical Engineering
  • Now at Google Research
• Kristina Toutanova, Computer Science
  • Now at Microsoft Research
• Huihsin Tseng, Linguistics (Univ Colorado at Boulder)
  • Now at Yahoo!

Masters Students

• Karthik Raghunathan, Computer Science
  • Now at Microsoft
• Eric Yeh, Computer Science
• Stefan Krawczyk, Computer Science
  • Now at LinkedIn
• Michael Levin, Computer Science
• Jeff Michels, Computer Science
• Galen Andrew, MS in Computer Science
  • Now at University of Washington (previously Microsoft Research)
• Steven Bills, Computer Science, Symbolic Systems
  • Now at Google
• Teg Grenager, Computer Science
  • Chief Architect at Adap.tv
• Surabhi Gupta, Computer Science
  • Now at Google
• Andrey Gusev, Computer Science
  • Now at salesforce.com
• David Hall, Symbolic Systems
  • Now PhD student, UC Berkeley (hiss!)
• Thad Hughes, Computer Science
  • Now at Google
• Mike Jahr, MS in Computer Science, BS (Honors) in Symbolic Systems
  • Now at Google (previously Plumtree Software)
• Alex Kleeman, iCME
• Mike Mintz, Symbolic Systems, Computer Science
  • Now at IMC Financial Markets
• William Morgan, Computer Science
  • Now at Twitter
• Huy Nguyen, MS in Computer Science
  • Now at Plaxo
• Jamie Nicolson, Computer Science
  • Now at Google
• Joseph Smarr, MS in Symbolic Systems
  • Then Plaxo, now Google

Undergrad Students

• Aria Haghighi, Computer Science
  • Now Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Chloe Kiddon, Computer Science
  • Now Ph.D. student, Computer Science, University of Washington
• Kristen Parton, BS in Computer Science
  • Now Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Columbia. (Previously at Stottler Henke and Yahoo!.)

Research Programmers

• Christopher Cox, Symbolic Systems
  • Now Vice President of Product, Facebook
• Anna Rafferty, Computer Science
  • Now Ph.D. student, Computer Science, UC Berkeley (boo!)

Research Scientists

• Michel Galley, Research Scientist in Computer Science
  • Now at Microsoft Research
• Ramesh Nallapati, Computer Science
  • Now at SRI.

Postdocs

• Steven Bethard, Computer Science
  • Now Research Associate at the Center for Language and Education Research, CU Boulder
• Mona Diab, Linguistics
  • Now Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University
• Sharon Goldwater, Linguistics
  • Now Lecturer, Department of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
• Jonas Kuhn, Linguistics
  • Now Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart (Previously at UT Austin and University of Potsdam)
• Ani Nenkova, Linguistics
  • Now Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
• Sebastian Padó, Linguistics
  • Now Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Heidelberg (previously at University of Stuttgart)
• Yves Peirsman, Linguistics
  • Now a research engineer at Textkernel
• Xiaolin Shi
  • Now at Microsoft
• Jiahong Yuan, Linguistics
  • Now Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania

Visiting Professors

• Eneko Agirre, Computer Science
  • Visiting Professor from University of the Basque Country
• Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Computer Science
  • Visiting Professor from IIT Bombay
• Pedro Domingos Computer Science
  • Visiting from U. Washington
• John Hale Linguistics and Computer Science
  • Visiting from Michigan State University
• Satoshi Oyama, Computer Science
  • Visiting Assistant Professor from Kyoto University
• Cindi Thompson, Computer Science
  • Visiting Assistant Professor from University of Utah