Natalie Parde received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas in 2018, where she was also a member of the Human Intelligence and Language…
Dr. Rachel Harsley, alumna of the NLP Lab, continues her success story by being named one of Crain’s Tech 50 of 2018. “After becoming the first black woman to receive a doctorate in…
Rachel Harsley, Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, was selected as the Golden Torch Award recipient for Graduate Student of the Year by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). NSBE is one of…
Nick Green (second from right), Computer Science PhD student, received the prestigious “50 for the Future” award from the Illinois Technology Foundation. This award is designed to recognize and honor the most promising…
The NLP lab recently received the best paper award at the IADIS International Conference on Educational Technologies (ICEduTech) 2015 in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The paper, “Student Behavior with Worked-out Examples in a Computer…
Lin Chen successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled: “Towards Modeling Collaborative Task Oriented Multimodal Human-human Dialogues” His committee included: Barbara Di Eugenio (advisor), Milos Zefran (ECE, UIC), Jason Leigh (UHawai’i Manoa), Piotr Gmytrasiewicz…
We had fun celebrating the end of the AY 13-14 and some nice accomplishments of the past year: three PhD students taking their WCPs (Written Preliminary Exams): Green, Harsley and Randolph three students…
Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio was chosen as the recipient of American Women in Science (AWIS) Chicago’s 7th Annual Innovator award, “for demonstrating innovative approaches in computational models of Natural Language Processing. Her work…
Professor Barbara Di Eugenio received a new award from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). She is the sole UIC PI, and overall co-PI on a joint project in the total amount of…
Prof. Di Eugenio has received a $10000 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement award to support the project “Mining life-stage events and user personas in microblogs”. The project focuses on: 1. Capturing life-stage events. …
Date and time: 19th April 2010, 1:00 PM Location: 219 SEO Committee: Prof. Barbara Di Eugenio, Prof. Peter Nelson, Prof. Bing Liu, Dr. Susan McRoy (University Of Wisconsin, Madison), Dr. Swee Mok (Motorola…
Barbara Di Eugenio is co-PI on a new NSF award (PI: Milos Zefran, co-PI: Jezekiel Ben-Arie) that aims at developing assistive robots for the elderly. The team will focus on the technological challenge…
Davide Fossati, Computer Science PhD student, received the prestigious “50 for the Future” award from the Illinois Technology Foundation. This award is designed to recognize and honor the most promising technology students in…
The NLP laboratory(Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio, director) has obtained new funding from the “Motorola University Partnership in Research” program for “Intelligent Aggregation for Mobile Search.” The project focuses on developing resources and algorithms…
Xin Lu will be defending her thesis this thursday. Details about her defense are outlined below: Location: SEO 1000 Time: 2:00 pm, Thursday, June 21, 2007. Speaker: Xin Lu Advisor: Barbara Di Eugenio…
The Chancellor’s Student Service Award Committee presents its awards for volunteer service on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 in the Illinois Room of UIC Student Center East. The reception will begin at 5:00 p.m.…