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Barbara Di Eugenio

Barbara Di Eugenio
Professor

1138 SEO | bdieugen@uic.edu | (312) 996-7566

Research Interests: Application to human-computer interaction, educational technology, human-robot interaction, and multimedia systems.

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Natalie Parde

Natalie Parde
Assistant Professor

1132 SEO | parde@uic.edu | (312) 355-1310

Research Interests: Multimodal natural language processing, semantics, robotics applications, and healthcare applications.

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Ankit Aich

Ankit Aich
PhD Student

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Mohammad Arvan

Mohammad Arvan
PhD Student

Abari Bhattacharya

Abari Bhattacharya
PhD Student

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Rochana Chaturvedi

Rochana Chaturvedi
PhD Student

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Shahla Farzana

Shahla Farzana
PhD Student

Baris Karacan

Baris Karacan
PhD Student

Paul Landes

Paul Landes
PhD student

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Natawut Monaikul

Natawut Monaikul
PhD Student

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Pardis Ranjbar-Noiey

Pardis Ranjbar-Noiey
PhD Student

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Usman Shahid

Usman Shahid
PhD Student

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Anuja Tayal

Anuja Tayal
PhD Student

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Yue Zhou

Yue Zhou
PhD Student

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Collaborators Heading link

Numerous collaborators at UIC, in CS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Psychology, Applied Health Sciences, Nursing

  • Krenare Nuci, a 2022 Fulbright Scholar postdoctoral fellow.
  • Michael Glass, a postdoctoral fellow from August 2000 to August 2002. He is now an Associate Professor at Valparaiso University.
  • Susan Haller, professor at SUNY Potsdam, collaborated with us on NLP for ITSs (2002-2006).
  • Pam Jordan and Sandra Katz, research associates at the University of Pittsburgh, work with us on analysis and modelling of peer learning.
  • Susan McRoy, professor at Univ. of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, spent the year 08-09 as a visitor in the NLP lab. We are collaborating with her on medical informatics applications of NLP.
  • Agathe Merceron, professor at Beuth University of Applied Science, Berlin, Germany, spent the year 12-13 on sabbatical with us. We share interests in educational data mining, and dialogue interaction in educational technology
  • Seong-Bae Park, professor at Kyungpook National University, South Korea.
  • Massimo Poesio, professor at the University of Essex, UK. We worked  together  on theories of referential expressions, and their application in tutoring interactions

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  • David Randolph (Spring 2023). PhD Thesis: “Toward Actionable Computational Models of Piano Fingering”
  • Mina Valizadeh (Fall 2022). PhD Thesis: “Identifying Medical Self-Disclosure in Online Communities”
  • Abhinav Kumar (Spring 2022). PhD Thesis: “Towards a Context-Aware Intelligent Assistant for Multimodal Exploratory Visualization Dialogue”
  • Itika Gupta (Spring 2021). PhD Thesis: “Modeling Health Coaching Dialogues for Extracting Behavioral Goals”
  • Mehrdad Alizadeh (Summer 2020). PhD Thesis: “Enhancing Visual Question Answering with Linguistic Information”
  • Sabita Acharya (Spring 2019). PhD Thesis: “Generating Personalized Hospital-Stay Summaries for Patients”
  • Rachel Harsley (Spring 2017). PhD Thesis: “Supporting Effective Collaborative Learning in a Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System”
  • Nick Green (Spring 2017). PhD Thesis: “Example Based Pedagogical Strategies in a Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System”
  • Lin Chen (Summer 2014). PhD Thesis: “Towards Modeling Collaborative Task Oriented Multimodal Human-Human Dialogues”
  • Joel Booth (Fall 2011, moved on to Sprout Social, Chicago). Ph.D. Thesis: “Modeling and Querying Multimodal Urban Transportation Networks”
  • Swati Tata (Spring 2010, currently at Versay Inc, Chicago). PhD Thesis: “SongRecommend: Music Recommendation System with Fine-Grained Song Reviews”
  • Cindy Kersey (Fall 2009, moved on to be an Assistant Professor at Lewis University). PhD Thesis: “Knowledge Co-construction and Initiative in Peer Learning Interactions”
  • Davide Fossati (Summer 2009, moved on to be an Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar). PhD Thesis: “Automatic Modeling of Procedural Knowledge and Feedback Generation in a Computer Science Tutoring System”
  • Rajen Subba (Summer 2008, moved on to Microsoft San Francisco; previously at Yahoo! Research Labs). PhD Thesis: “Discourse Parsing: A Relational Learning Approach”
  • Xin Lu (Summer 2007,  moved on to Nuance, Inc, Montreal, Canada). PhD Thesis: “Expert Tutoring and Natural Language Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems”
  • Zhuli (Jack) Xie (Fall 2006, moved on to be a Data Analyst at Yahoo, NYC, NY; previously at MySpace, and at Motorola Research, Schaumburg, IL). PhD Thesis: “Machine Learning in Automatic Text Summarization: From Extracting to Abstracting”
  • Ashwin Deshpande (Spring 2022)
  • Charic Farinango Cuervo (Fall 2021)
  • Philip Hossu (Spring 2021)
  • Yatri Modi (Spring 2020)
  • Flavio Di Palo (Fall 2019)
  • Aldo Alvarez (Spring 2019)
  • Unaiza Faiz (Spring 2019)
  • Paolo Polimeno Camastra (Fall 2018)
  • Abhinaya Balasubramanian (Spring 2014, moved on to Yahoo! Inc)
  • Mohammadreza Miryani  (Spring 2014)
  • Balachandar Venkataramani (Spring 2014)
  • Camillo Lugaresi (Summer 2013, moved on to Google, CA). MS Thesis: “Translating Italian Connectives into Italian Sign Language”
  • Nikhil Sunderraj (Spring 2013, moved on to FactSet Research Systems, NYC, NY)
  • Hareen Venigalla (Spring 2013)
  • Vivek Hariharan (Spring 2013, moved on to TubeMogul, Emeryville, CA)
  • Jayashree Khobarekar (Spring 2013)
  • Anruo Wang (Summer 2012)
  • Alberto Tretti (Spring 2010, co-founder of Glancee, later acquired by Facebook). MS Thesis: “Analysis and presentation of results for mobile local search”
  • Jisha Abubaker (Fall 2008). MS Thesis: “Semantic Role Labeling: Generalizing To Unseen Verbs Using VerbNet”
  • SuNam Kim (moved to Univ. of Melbourne, Summer 2005) worked on inductive logic programming for discourse relations
  • Dan Yu (Summer 2004, currently at Albert A. Webb Associates, Riverside, CA) worked on DIAG-NLP
  • Yijue Hou (Summer 2003) worked on DIAG-NLP
  • Riccardo Serafin (Summer 2003, moved on to Scientific Institute H. San Raffaele, Milano, Italy) worked on extending LSA to recognize dialogue acts
  • Vijaysenthil Veeriah (Summer 03)
  • Tejaswini Pendyala (Summer 2002) worked on applying LSA to one of our tutoring corpora
  • Elena Terenzi (Summer 2002) worked on coupling LCFLEX with VerbNet
  • Mike Trolio (Fall 2000) worked on generating instructional dialogue
  • Kai-Hua Xiang (Fall 2000) worked on Machine Learning for generating cue phrases