Current Members
Joyce Chai (Faculty) - Joyce Chai received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Duke University. She is broadly interested in multimodal conversation systems, human machine communication, natural language processing, and intelligent user interfaces.
Tyler Baldwin (Ph.D. student) - Tyler Baldwin received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 2006. His research interests include natural language processing and question-answer systems.
Matt Gerber (Ph.D. student) - Matt Gerber received his B.S. in Computer Science, with High Distinction from Ohio Northern University in 2005. He is interested in the semantic analysis of natural language text and currently working on the automatic identification of nominalization argument structure within the NomBank corpus.
Zahar Prasov (Ph.D. student) - Zahar Prasov received his B.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2003. His research interests include multimodal conversation systems, human-computer communication, intelligent user interfaces, natural language processing and dialog systems.
Shaolin Qu (Ph.D. student) - Shaolin Qu is interested in multimodal conversational systems, human-computer interaction, and natural language processing. His current work involves context-aware interpretation of user's inputs in multimodal conversational systems that support speech, gesture, and eye gaze.
Chen Zhang (Ph.D. student) - Chen Zhang received his B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology in 2004 from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He is currently working on interactive question answering, and has previously worked on recognizing semantic entailment and interactive text-based image retrieval.
- Michael Murphy (M.S. student)
- Changsong Liu (visiting scholar)
- Roy Dong (Undergraduate Research Assistant)
- Marie Lazar (Undergraduate Assistant)
Alumni
- Mingyu Sun (Ph.D., 2006)
- Minghang Cai (M.S., 2007)
- Kiran Joshi (M.S., 2005)
- Timothy Aubel (Undergraduate Assistant, 2007-2008)
- Sarah Deighan (Undergraduate Assistant, 2007-2008)
- Steve Emerlander (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2007)
- Hogyeong Jeong (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2006)
- Tyler Baldwin (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2005)
- Joseph Blaim (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2004)
