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, psycholinguistics, NLP for social sciences

Research Scientists

• Michel Galley, Computer Science
• Ramesh Nallapati, Computer Science
• Mihai Surdeanu, Computer Science

Postdocs

• Steven Bethard, Computer Science
• Xiaolin Shi

Ph.D. Students

• Daniel Cer, Computer Science (visiting from U. Colorado)
• Nate Chambers, Computer Science
• Uriel Cohen-Priva, Linguistics
• Jenny Finkel, Computer Science
• Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Linguistics
• Gayle McElvain, Linguistics
• Rob Munro, Linguistics
• Daniel Ramage, Computer Science
• Valentin Spitkovsky, Computer Science
• Yun-Hsuan Sung, Electrical Engineering
• Adam Vogel, Computer Science
• Mengqiu Wang, Computer Science

Masters Students

• Steven Bills, Computer Science, Symbolic Systems
• Spence Green, Computer Science
• Stefan Krawczyk, Computer Science
• Michael Levin, Computer Science
• Karthik Raghunathan, Computer Science
• Eric Yeh, Computer Science

Undergraduate Students

• Ilya Sherman, Computer Science

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Alumni/Alumnae

Ph.D. Students

• Jason Brenier, Linguistics (visiting from U. Colorado)
  • Now at Cataphora
• Pi-Chuan Chang, Computer Science
  • Now at Google
• 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 Aardvark
• Rion Snow, Computer Science
  • Now at Twitter
• Kristina Toutanova, Computer Science
  • Now at Microsoft Research
• Huihsin Tseng, Linguistics (Univ Colorado at Boulder)
  • Now at Yahoo!

Masters Students

• Galen Andrew, MS in Computer Science
  • Now at Microsoft Research
• Teg Grenager, Computer Science
  • Chief Architect at Adap.tv
• Surabhi Gupta, Computer Science
  • Now at Google
• 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
• Jeff Michels, Computer Science
• Mike Mintz, Symbolic Systems, Computer Science
• Huy Nguyen, MS in Computer Science
  • Now at Plaxo
• Jamie Nicolson, Computer Science
  • Now at Google
• Joseph Smarr, MS in Symbolic Systems
  • Now at Plaxo
• William Morgan, Computer Science
  • Now at Powerset

Undergrad Students

• Christopher Cox, Symbolic Systems
  • Now Director of Products, Facebook
• Aria Haghighi, Computer Science
  • Now Ph.D. student, Computer Science, UC Berkeley (boo!)
• 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!.)
• Anna Rafferty, Computer Science
  • Now Ph.D. student, Computer Science, UC Berkeley (boo!)

Postdocs

• 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 Theoretical Linguistics, University of Potsdam. (Previously at University of Texas, Austin.)
• Ani Nenkova, Linguistics
  • Now Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
• Sebastian Padó, Linguistics
  • Now Juniorprofessor für Computerlinguistik, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Stuttgart University
• 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