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Barbara Di Eugenio
Professor1138 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
Assistant Professor1132 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
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Mohammad Arvan
PhD Student
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Abari Bhattacharya
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Rochana Chaturvedi
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Shahla Farzana
PhD Student
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Baris Karacan
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Paul Landes
PhD student
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Natawut Monaikul
PhD Student
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PhD Student
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Usman Shahid
PhD Student
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Yue Zhou
PhD Student
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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
Alumni Heading link
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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”
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- 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