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2011 [top]
Name
Degree
Thesis
Initial Employment/Continuing Education
Agarwal, Nitin
M.S.
Ahmed, Amr
Ph.D.
Modeling Content and Users: Structured Probabilistic Representation and Scalable Online Inference Algorithms
Al-Haj, Hassan
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D. Student
Arguello, Jaime
Ph.D.
Federated Search in Heterogenous Environments
Asst. Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Banerjee, Satanjeev
Ph.D.
Extracting and Using Implicit Supervision to Automatically Improve Meeting-Understanding
Twitter
Chang, Kai-min
Ph.D.
Quantitative Modeling of the Neural Representation of Nouns and Phrases
Research Associate - CMU/LTI
Cohen, Shay
Ph.D.
Computational Learning of Probabilistic Grammars in the Unsupervised Setting
Elsas, Jonathan
Ph.D.
Leveraging Collection Structure in Information Retrieval with Applications to Search in Conversational Social Media
Google, Pgh.
Gangadharaiah, Rashmi
Ph.D.
Coping with Data-sparsity in Example-based Machine Translation
IBM, Bangalore
Heilman, Michael
Ph.D.
Automatic Factual Question Generation from Text
Huggins-Daines, David
Ph.D.
An Architecture for Scalable, Universal Speech Recognition
Kim, Jae Dong
Ph.D.
Chunk Alignment for Corpus-Based Machine Translation
Kumar, Rohit
Ph.D.
Socially Capable Conversational Agents for Multi-Party Interactive Situations
BBN Technologies
Lad, Abhimanyu
Ph.D.
A Framework for Evaluation and Optimization of Relevance and Novelty-based Retrieval
Laskowski, Kornel
Ph.D.
Predicting, Detecting, and Explaining the Occurrence of Vocal Activity in Multi-Party Conversation
Lin, Tien-Ho
Ph.D.
Learning Cellular Sorting Pathways Using Protein Interaction and Sequence Motif
Tastan, Oznur
Ph.D.
Prediction of Host-Virus Protein-Protein Interactions
Researcher, Microsoft
Zollmann, Andreas
Ph.D.
Learning Multiple-Nonterminal Synchronous Grammars for Statistical Machine Translation
2010 [top]
Bosaghzadeh, Reza
M.S.
Stanford Ph.D. Student
Chen, Ming-Yu
Ph.D.
Long Term Activity Analysis in Surveillance Video Archives
Microsoft Corporation
Denkowski, Michael
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Donmez, Pinar
Ph.D.
Proactive Learning: Towards Learning with Multiple Imperfect Predictors
Yahoo Research
Duong, Minh
M.S.
Facebook
Gopal, Siddharth
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Gu, Lingyun
Ph.D.
Single-Channel Speech Separation Based on Instantaneous Frequency
Research Scientist, California Institute of Technology
Gupta, Naman
M.S.
Internship at Google (Seattle)
Huang, Yi-Fen
Ph.D.
Mixed-Initiative Clustering
Google, Inc.
Kim, Chanwoo
Ph.D.
Single Processing for Robust Speech Recognition Motivated by Auditory Processing
Microsoft Corporation
Langner, Brian
Ph.D.
Data-driven Natural Language Generation: Making Machines Talk Like Humans Using Natural Corpora
LTI Staff
Li, Runxin
M.S.
FactSet Research Systems Inc. (New York)
Li, Yung-Hui
Ph.D.
Robust Long Range Iris Recognition from Video Using Super Resolution
Assistant Professor, Feng Chia University (Taiwan)
Liu, Liu
M.S.
Google Inc., Pittsburgh
Ogilvie, Paul
Ph.D.
Retrieval Using Document Structure and Annotations
LinkedIn
Pappu, Aasish
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Prahallad, Kishore
Ph.D.
Automatic Building of Synthetic Voices from Audio Books
Assistant Professor IIIT, Hyderabad
Tribble, Alicia
Ph.D.
Textual Inference for Retrieving Labeled Object Descriptions
Alelo (Los Angeles) - Artificial Intelligence for Education
Uguroglu, Selen
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Yoo, Shinjae
Ph.D.
Machine Methods for Personalized Email Prioritization
Computational Science Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory
2009 [top]
Arora, Shilpa
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Balakrishnan, Sivaraman
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Balasubramanyan, Ramnath
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Bilotti, Matthew
Ph.D.
Linguistic and Semantic Passage Retrieval Strategies for Question Answering
Twitter
Chaudhuri, Sourish
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Chen, Wei
Ph.D.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Clark, Jonathan
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Cui, Yue
M.S.
Gao, Qin
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Goldstein, Jade
Ph.D.
Genre Oriented Summarization
U.S. governmental position
Gonzalez, Jose
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Huber, Edmund
M.S.
Yelp Inc. (San Francisco)
Kang, Moonyoung
M.S.
Researcher, BBN Technologies
Kamataki, Keisuke
M.S.
CMU MLD Research Programmer
Kominek, John
Ph.D.
TTS From Zero: Building Synthetic Voices for New Languages
Silicon Vox (local LT company)
Liang, Chenmin
M.S.
Senior Software Assistant, Software & Services company, Turn
Lim, Daniel
M.S.
Defense Science Organization in Singapore
Minkov, Einat
Ph.D.
Adaptive Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures in Entity-Relation Graphs
Nokia Research Labs
Monson, Christian
Ph.D.
Paramor: From Paradigm Structure to Natural Language Morphology Induction
Post-Doc, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Health and Science University
Nallasamy, Udhyakumar
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Oh, Hyaejin (Jean)
Ph.D.
Multiagent Social Learning in Large Repeated Games
Post-Doc, CMU Robotics
Parlikar, Alok
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Pathak, Manas
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Pedro, Vasco
Ph.D.
Federated Ontology Search
Owns start-up company, Bueda
Pino, Juan
M.S.
University of Cambridge Ph.D Student
Rashid, Daniel
M.S.
Software Engineer, FactSet Research Systems
Sharif Razavian, Narges
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Sharifi, Mehrbod
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Tam, Yik-Cheung (Wilson)
Ph.D.
Rapid Unsupervised Topic Adaptation - A Latent Semantic Approach
Nuance Communications (Seattle)
Toth, Arthur
Ph.D.
Using Articulatory Position Data to Improve Voice Transformation
Research Scientist, Yap (Boston)
Venugopal, Ashish
Ph.D.
Preference Grammars and Decoding Algorithms for Probabilistic Synchronous Context Free Grammar Based Translation
Google, Inc.
Wang, Richard
Ph.D.
Language-Independent Class Instance Extraction Using the Web
Google Inc.
Wu, Wen
Ph.D.
Multimedia Technologies for Landmark-Based Vehicle Navigation
Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton, NJ)
Xiang, Guang
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Yang, Jun
Ph.D.
A General Framework for Classifier Adaptation and its Applications in Multimedia
Google, Inc.
Zhang, Ying
Ph.D.
Structured Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Faculty at CMU, Campus West (Silicon Valley, California)
2008 [top]
Carvalho, Vitor R.
Ph.D.
Modeling Intention in E-Mail
MS Livelabs
Chotimongkol, Ananlada
Ph.D.
Learning the Structure of Task-Oriented Conversations from the Corpus of In-Domain Dialogs
Assistant Researcher, NECTEC (Thailand)
Collins-Thompson, Kevyn
Ph.D.
Robust Model Estimation Methods for Information Retrieval
Microsoft
Das, Dipanjan
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Gardiner, Steven
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Harpale, Abhay
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Joshi, Mahesh
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Jou, Szu-Chen (Stan)
Ph.D.
Automatic Speech Recognition on Vibrocervigraphic and Electromyographic Signals
Lao, Ni
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Nallasamy, Udhyakumar
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Raux, Antoine
Ph.D.
Flexible Turn-Taking for Spoken Dialog Systems
Honda Research Institute
Qi, Yanjun
Ph.D.
Learning of Protein Interaction Networks
NEC Laboratories
Wang, Yi-Chia
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Wei-Hao, Lin
Ph.D.
Identifying Ideological Perspectives in Text and Video
Google, Inc.
Zhao, Le
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
2007 [top]
Bardak, Ulas
Ph.D.
Information Eliciation in Scheduling Problems
Bach, Nguyen
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Betteridge, Justin
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Font-Llitjos, Ariadna
Ph.D.
Automatic Improvement of Machine Translation Systems
Vivisimo, Inc.
Ganapathiraju, Madhavi
Ph.D.
Application of Language Technologies in Biology: Feature Extraction and Modeling for Transmembrane Helix Prediction
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Gangadharaiah, Rashmi
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Hanneman, Gregory
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Heilman, Michael
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Hsiao, Wend-huu (Roger)
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Jin, Qin
Ph.D.
Robust Speaker Recognition
Post-Doc, CMU Language Technologies Institute
Ko, Jeongwoo
Ph.D.
Probabilistic Approaches for Answer Selection in Multilingual Question Answering
Senior Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation
Kumar, Rohit
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Lambert, Benjamin
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Li, Fan
Ph.D.
Structure Learning with Large Sparse Undirected Graphs and its Applications
Yahoo Applied Research
Lu, Jie
Ph.D.
Full-Text Federated Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks
IBM Corporation
Phillips, Aaron
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Salomatin, Konstantin
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Zhao, Bing
Ph.D.
Statistical Alignment Models for Translational Equivalence
IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
Zhang, Rong
Ph.D.
Making an Effective Use of Speech Data for Acoustic Modeling
Speech Scientist, IBM Systems and Technology
2006 [top]
Arguello, Jaime
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Chang, Kai-Min (Kevin)
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Chang, Yi
M.S.
Research Programmer, CMU
Huang, Fei
Ph.D.
Multilingual Named Entity Extraction and Translation from Text and Speech
Research Staff, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
Huggins-Daines, David
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Jin, Chun
Ph.D.
Optimizing Multiple Continuous Queries
Kumar, Mohit
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Li, Yung-HuiME
M.S.
CMU ECE Ph.D Student
Lin, Tien-Ho
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Liu, Yan
Ph.D.
Conditional Graphical Models for Protein Structure Prediction
Research Staff, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
Malkin, Robert
Ph.D.
Machine Listening for Context-Aware Computing
Google, Inc.
Sagae, Kenji
Ph.D.
A Multi-Strategy Approach for Parsing of Grammatical Relations in Transcripts of Parent-Child Dialogs
Researcher, University of Tokyo
Shima, Hideki
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Si, Luo
Ph.D.
Federated Search of Text Search Engines in Uncooperative Environments
Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Tomko, Stefanie
Ph.D.
Improving User Interaction with Spoken Dialog Systems via Shaping
Microsoft
Treeratpituk, Pucktada
M.S.
Penn State Ph.D Student
Yan, Rong
Ph.D.
Probabilistic Models for Combining Diverse Knowledge Sources in Multimedia Retrieval
Research Staff, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Yang, Hui (Grace)
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Zhang, Jian
Ph.D.
A Probabilistic Framework for Multi-Task Learning
Assistant Professor, Purdue University
2005 [top]
Banerjee, Satanjeev
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Brown, Jonathan
M.S.
Research Programmer, LTI
Carvalho, Victor
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Chao, Chih-Yu
M.S.
MIT EECS Ph.D student
Fung, Simon
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Garera, Nikesh
M.S.
John Hopkins University CS Ph.D student
Hannan, Kerry
M.S.
Google, Inc.
Hewavitharana, Sanjika
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Jayaraman, Shyam
M.S.
Google, Inc.
Jones, Rosemary
Ph.D.
Learning to Extract Entities from Labeled and Unlabeled Text
Research Scientist, Yahoo
Judy, Scott
M.S.
Panasonic Automotive Systems of America
Kim, Jae Dong
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Klimt, Bryan
M.S.
Cycorp Inc.
Lebanon, Guy
Ph.D.
Riemannian Geometry and Statistical Machine Learning
Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Lin, Frank
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Miao, Jiangbo
M.S.
Microsoft
Minkov, Einat
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Popescu, Octav
Ph.D.
Logic-Based Natural Language Understanding in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Research Programmer HCII
Probst, Kathrin
Ph.D.
Learning Transfer Rules for Machine Translation with Limited Data
Accenture
Raynolds, Rachel
M.S.
Saleem, Shirin
M.S.
BBN Technologies
Wang, Richard
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Wu, Wen
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Yoo, Shinjae
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Yu, Hua
Ph.D.
Recognizing Sloppy Speech
Google, Inc.
Zhang, Yi
Ph.D.
Bayesian Graphical Models for Adaptive Filtering
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Zhu, Xiaojin (Jerry)
Ph.D.
Semi-Supervised Learning with Graphs
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
2004 [top]
Chen, Ming-yu
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Cheng, Yee Man (Betty)
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Langner, Brian
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Ma, Nianli
M.S.
Micher, Jeffrey
M.S.
Sison, June
M.S.
Suebvisai, Sinaporn
M.S.
Tam, Yik Chueng
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Tengli, Ashwin
M.S.
Van Durme, Benjamin
M.S.
Ph.D, Rochester University
Zhang, Jason
M.S.
Pre-Med John Hopkins University
2003 [top]
Bardak, Ulas
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Bennett, Christina
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Collins-Thompson, Kevyn
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Huttenhower, Curtis
M.S.
Ph.D, Princeton University
Jin, Rong
Ph.D.
Statistical Approach toward Automatic Title Generation
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Langley, Chad
Ph.D.
Domain Acion Classification and Argument Parsing for Interlingua-Based Spoken Language Translation
US Department of Defense
Pedro, Vasco
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Qi, Yanjun
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Suen, Peter
M.S.
Venugopal, Ashish
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
2002 [top]
Baker, Kathy
Ph.D.
Guarded Constraints in Natural Language Processing
US Department of Defense
Jou, Szu-Chen
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Laskowski, Kornel
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Placeway, Paul
Ph.D.
High-Performance Multi-Pass Unification Parsing
Google, Inc.
Tribble, Alicia
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Zhai, ChengXiang
Ph.D.
Risk Minimization and Language Modeling in Text Retrieval
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zhang, Ying
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
2001 [top]
Chotimongkol, Ananlada
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Font-Llitjos, Ariadna
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Huang, Fei
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Kominek, John
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Liu, Fang
M.S.
Oracle
Olinsky, Craig
M.S.
MIT Media Lab Europe
Qu, Yan
Ph.D.
A Constraint-Based Model of Mixed-Initiative Dialogue for Information-Seeking Interactions
Clairvoyance
Tomko, Stefanie
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Tomokiyo, Laura Mayfield
Ph.D.
Recognizing Non-Native Speech: Characterizing and Adapting to Non-Native Usage in Speech Recognition
Cepstral (Speech company)
Toth, Arthur
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Wang, Zhirong
M.S.
Zechner, Klaus
Ph.D.
Automatic Summarization of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains
Educational Testing Service
Zhu, Jie
M.S.
2000 [top]
Aist, Gregory
Ph.D.
Helping Children Learn Vocabulary during Computer-Assisted Oral Reading
Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Ames Research Center
Alexander, Dorcas
M.S.
CMU LTI Research Staff
Gavalda, Marsal
Ph.D.
Growing Semantic Grammars
Dictaphone
Oh, Alice
M.S.
MIT EECS Ph.D student
Penn, Gerald
Ph.D.
The Algebraic Structure of Attributed Type Signatures
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Pierce, Thomas
M.S.
CMU LTI Research Staff
Sun, Yong (Mel)
M.S.
MicroStrategy
Tomokiyo, Takashi
M.S.
Whizbang Labs
Ushioda, Akira
Ph.D.
Word and Compound Clustering for NLP
Fujitsu
Watanabe, Taro
M.S.
ATR, Japan
Xu, Wei
M.S.
CMU LTI Ph.D Student
Zheng, Pei
M.S.
1999 [top]
Bansal, Dhananjay
M.S.
BBN
Li, Jianbing
M.S.
Microsoft
Liu, Xin
M.S.
NEC, California
Polzin, Thomas
Ph.D.
Detecting Verbal and Non-verbal Cues in the Communication of Emotions
ISI (Speech company)
Thomas, Kavita
M.S.
U. Edinburgh (UK) Ph.D. Student
1998 [top]
Broadhead, Matthew
M.S.
SHAI (Small AI company)
Chen, Liren
M.S.
Logica Carnegie Group
Clark, Gregory Cortis
M.S.
Evans & Sutherland
Fang, Wei
M.S.
ABN AMRO (Intl. bank)
Giampapa, Joseph
M.S.
CMU Robotics Institute Staff
Jang, Photina Jaeyun
M.S.
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Kennedy, Paul
M.S.
MIT Lincoln Lab Staff
Lapata, Maria
M.S.
U. Edinburgh (UK) Ph.D Student
Wang, Ye Yi
Ph.D.
Grammar Inference and Statistical Machine Translation
Microsoft Research
1997 [top]
Beale, Stephen
Ph.D.
Hunter-Gatherer: Applying Constraint Satisfaction, Branch-and-Bound and Solution Synthesis to Computational Semantics
Faculty, New Mexico State University
Onyshkevych, Boyan
Ph.D.
An Ontological-Semantic Framework for Text Analysis
US Department of Defense
Rosé, Carolyn Penstein
Ph.D.
Robust Interactive Dialogue Interpretation
Faculty, LTI, CMU
Waibel, Naomi
M.S.
ISI (Speech company)
Zeppenfeld, Torsten
M.S.
Nuance (Speech company)
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