2008

Graduate Information TBA

2007

Zhang, Rong
Ph.D., 2007
Speech Scientist
IBM Systems and Technology
Thesis: Making an Effective Use of Speech Data for Acoustic Modeling (in revision process)

Li, Fan
Ph.D., 2007
Yahoo Applied Research
Thesis: Structure Learning with Large Sparse Undirected Graphs and its Applications

Bardak, Ulas
Ph.D., 2007
Thesis: Information Eliciation in Scheduling Problems

Betteridge, Justin
M.S., 2007
CMU LTI Ph.D Student

Font-Llitjos, Ariadna
Ph.D., 2007
Vivisimo, Inc.
Thesis: Automatic Improvement of Machine Translation Systems

Ganapathiraju, Madhavi
Ph.D., 2007
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Thesis: Application of Language Technologies in Biology: Feature Extraction and Modeling for Transmembrane Helix Prediction

Jin, Qin
Ph.D., 2007
Post-Doc
CMU Language Techn0logies Institute
Thesis: Robust Speaker Recognition

Ko, Jeongwoo
Ph.D., 2007
Senior Technical Staff
Oracle Corporation
Thesis: Probabilistic Approaches for Answer Selection in Multilingual Question Answering

Lu, Jie
Ph.D., 2007
IBM Corporation
Thesis: Full-Text Federated Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Zhao, Bing
Ph.D., 2007
IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
Thesis: Statistical Alignment Models for Translational Equivalence

2006

Arguello, Jaime
M.S., 2006
CMU LTI Ph.D Student

Chang, Kai-Min (Kevin)
M.S., 2006
CMU LTI Ph.D Student

Chang, Yi
M.S., 2006
Research Programmer, CMU

Huang, Fei
Ph.D., 2006
Research Staff
IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
Thesis: Multilingual Named Entity Extraction and Translation from Text and Speech

Huggins-Daines, David
M.S., 2006
CMU LTI Ph.D Student

Jin, Chun
Ph.D., 2006
Thesis: Optimizing Multiple Continuous Queries

Kumar, Mohit
M.S., 2006
CMU LTI Ph.D Student

Li, Yung-Hui
MS, 2006
CMU ECE Ph.D student

Lin, Tien-Ho
M.S., 2006
CMU LTI Ph.D Student

Liu, Yan
Ph.D., 2006
Research Staff
IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
Thesis: Conditional Graphical Models for Protein Structure Prediction

Malkin, Robert
Ph.D., 2006
Google, Inc.
Thesis: Machine Listening for Context-Aware Computing

Sagae, Kenji
Ph.D., 2006
Researcher
University of Tokyo
Thesis: A Multi-Strategy Approach for Parsing of Grammatical Relations in Transcripts of Parent-Child Dialogs

Shima, Hideki
M.S., 2006
CMU LTI Ph.D Student

Si, Luo
Ph.D., 2006
Assistant Professor
Purdue University
Thesis: Federated Search of Text Search Engines in Uncooperative Environments

Tomko, Stefanie
Ph.D., 2006
Microsoft
Thesis: Improving User Interaction with Spoken Dialog Systems via Shaping

Yan, Rong
Ph.D., 2006
Research Staff
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Thesis: Probabilistic Models for Combining Diverse Knowledge Sources in Multimedia Retrieval

Yang, Hui (Grace)
M.S., 2006
CMU LTI Ph.D Student

Zhang, Jian
Ph.D, 2006
Assistant Professor
Purdue University
Thesis: A Probabilistic Framework for Multi-Task Learning

2005

Banerjee, Satanjeev
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Brown, Jonathan
M.S., 2005
Research Programmer, LTI

Carvalho, Victor
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Chao, Chih-Yu
M.S., 2005
MIT EECS Ph.D student

Fung, Simon
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Garera, Nikesh
M.S., 2005
John Hopkins University
CS Ph.D student

Hannan, Kerry
M.S., 2005
Google

Hewavitharana, Sanjika
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Jayaraman, Shyam
M.S., 2005
Google

Jones, Rosemary
Ph.D., 2005
Research Scientist, Yahoo
Thesis: Learning to Extract Entities from Labeled and Unlabeled Text

Judy, Scott
M.S., 2005
Panasonic Automotive Systems of America

Kim, Jae Dong
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Klimt, Bryan
M.S., 2005
Cycorp Inc.

Lebanon, Guy
Ph.D., 2005
Assistant Professor
Purdue University
Thesis: Riemannian Geometry and Statistical Machine Learning

Lin, Frank
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Miao, Jiangbo
M.S., 2005
Microsoft

Minkov, Einat
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Popescu, Octav
Ph.D., 2005
Research Programmer HCII
Thesis: Logic-Based Natural Language Understanding in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Probst, Kathrin
Ph.D., 2005
Accenture
Thesis: Learning Transfer Rules for Machine Translation with Limited Data

Raynolds, Rachel
M.S, 2005

Saleem, Shirin
M.S., 2005
BBN Technologies

Wang, Richard
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Wu, Wen
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Yoo, Shinjae
M.S., 2005
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Yu, Hua
Ph.D., 2005
Google
Thesis: Recognizing Sloppy Speech

Zhang, Yi
Ph.D., 2005
Assistant Professor
University of California, Santa Cruz
Thesis: Bayesian Graphical Models for Adaptive Filtering

Zhu, Xiaojin (Jerry)
Ph.D., 2005
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin
Thesis: Semi-Supervised Learning with Graphs

2004

Chen, Ming-yu
M.S., 2004
LTI Ph.D student

Cheng, Yee Man (Betty)
M.S., 2004
LTI Ph.D student

Langner, Brian
M.S., 2004
LTI Ph.D student

Ma, Nianli
M.S., 2004

Micher, Jeffrey
M.S., 2004

Sison, June
M.S., 2004

Suebvisai, Sinaporn
M.S., 2004

Tam, Yik Chueng
M.S., 2004
LTI Ph.D student

Tengli, Ashwin
M.S., 2004

Van Durme, Benjamin
M.S., 2004
Ph.D, Rochester University

Zhang, Jason
M.S., 2004
Pre-Med John Hopkins University

2003

Bardak, Ulas
M.S., 2003
LTI Ph.D student

Bennett, Christina
M.S., 2003
LTI Ph.D student

Collins-Thompson, Kevyn
M.S., 2003
LTI Ph.D student

Huttenhower, Curtis
M.S., 2003
Ph.D, Princeton University

Jin, Rong
Ph.D., 2003
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Thesis: Statistical Approach toward Automatic Title Generation

Langley, Chad
Ph.D., 2003
US Department of Defense
Thesis: Domain Acion Classification and Argument Parsing for Interlingua-Based Spoken Language Translation

Pedro, Vasco
M.S., 2003
LTI Ph.D student

Qi, Yanjun
M.S., 2003
LTI Ph.D student

Suen, Peter
M.S., 2003

Venugopal, Ashish
M.S., 2003
LTI Ph.D student

2002

Placeway, Paul
Ph.D., 2002
Google
Thesis:: High-Performance Multi-Pass Unification Parsing

Tribble, Alicia
M.S., 2002
LTI Ph.D student

Zhai, ChengXiang
Ph.D., 2002
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis:Risk Minimization and Language Modeling in Text Retrieval

Zhang, Ying
M.S., 2002
LTI Ph.D student

2000

Aist, Gregory
Ph.D., 2000
Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Ames Research Center
Thesis: Helping Children Learn Vocabulary during Computer-Assisted Oral Reading

Alexander, Dorcas
M.S., 2000
CMU LTI research staff

Gavalda, Marsal
Ph.D., 2000
Dictaphone
Thesis: Growing Semantic Grammars

Oh, Alice
M.S., 2000
MIT EECS Ph.D student

Penn, Gerald
Ph.D., 2000
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Thesis: The Algebraic Structure of Attributed Type Signatures

Sun, Yong (Mel)
M.S., 2000
MicroStrategy

Tomokiyo, Takashi
M.S., 2000
Whizbang Labs

Ushioda, Akira
Ph.D., 2000
Fujitsu
Thesis: Word and Compound Clustering for NLP

Watanabe, Taro
M.S., 2000
ATR, Japan

Xu, Wei
M.S., 2000
CMU LTI Ph.D student

Zheng, Pei
M.S., 2000

1998

Broadhead, Matthew
M.S., 1998
SHAI (small AI company)

Chen, Liren
M.S., 1998
Logica Carnegie Group

Clark, Gregory Cortis
M.S., 1998
Evans & Sutherland

Fang, Wei
M.S., 1998
ABN AMRO (Intl. bank)

Giampapa, Joseph
M.S., 1998
CMU Robotics Institute staff

Jang, Photina Jaeyun
M.S., 1998
IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Kennedy, Paul
M.S., 1998
MIT Lincoln Lab staff

Lapata, Maria
M.S., 1998
Ph.D prog at U. Edinburgh (UK)

Wang, Ye Yi
Ph.D., 1998
Microsoft Research
Thesis:Grammar Inference and Statistical Machine Translation

1997

Beale, Stephen
Ph.D., 1997
New Mexico State Univ. faculty
Thesis: Hunter-Gatherer: Applying Constraint Satisfaction, Branch-and-Bound and Solution Synthesis to Computational Semantics

Onyshkevych, Boyan
Ph.D., 1997
US Department of Defense
Thesis: An Ontological-Semantic Framework for Text Analysis

Rosé, Carolyn Penstein
Ph.D., 1997
Language Technologies Institute faculty
Thesis: Robust Interactive Dialogue Interpretation

Waibel, Naomi
M.S., 1997
ISI (Speech company)

Zeppenfeld, Torsten
M.S., 1997
Nuance (Speech company)