PhD:
- Rachel Harsley (PhD spring 2017). PhD Thesis: "Supporting Effective Collaborative Learning in A Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System"
- Nick Green (PhD spring 2017). PhD Thesis: "Example Based Pedagogical Strategies in a Computer Science Intelligent Tutoring System"
- Lin Chen (PhD summer 2014). PhD Thesis: "Towards Modeling Collaborative Task Oriented Multimodal Human-human Dialogues"
- Joel Booth (PhD fall 2011, currently at Sprout Social, Chicago). Ph.D. Thesis: "Modeling and Querying Multimodal Urban Transportation Networks"
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Swati Tata (PhD spring 2010, currently at Versay Inc, Chicago). PhD Thesis: "SongRecommend: Music Recommendation System with Fine-Grained Song Reviews"
- Cindy Kersey (PhD fall 2009, currently Assistant Professor at Lewis University). PhD Thesis: "Knowledge Co-construction and Initiative in Peer Learning Interactions"
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Davide Fossati (PhD summer 2009, currently Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar). PhD Thesis: "Automatic Modeling of Procedural Knowledge and Feedback Generation in a Computer Science Tutoring System"
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Rajen Subba (PhD summer 2008, previously at Yahoo! Research Labs, currently at Microsoft San Francisco). PhD Thesis: "Discourse Parsing: A Relational Learning Approach"
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Xin Lu (PhD summer 2007, currently at Nuance, Inc, Montreal, Canada). PhD Thesis: "Expert tutoring and natural language feedback in intelligent tutoring systems"
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Zhuli (Jack) Xie (PhD December 2006, currently Data Analyst at Yahoo, NYC, NY; previously at MySpace, and at Motorola Research, Schaumburg, IL). PhD Thesis: "From Extracting to Abstracting: Generating Quasi-abstractive Summaries"
Master's:
- Abhinaya Balasubramanian (MS Spring 2014, currently at Yahoo! Inc)
- Mohammadreza Miryani (MS Spring 2014)
- Balachandar Venkataramani (MS Spring 2014)
- Camillo Lugaresi (MS Summer 2013, currently at Google, CA). MS Thesis: "Translating Italian Connectives into Italian Sign Language"
- Nikhil Sunderraj (MS Spring 2013, currently at FactSet Research Systems, NYC, NY)
- Hareen Venigalla (MS Spring 2013)
- Vivek Hariharan (MS Spring 2013, currently at TubeMogul, Emeryville, CA)
- Jayashree Khobarekar (MS Spring 2013)
- Anruo Wang (Summer 2012)
- Alberto Tretti (MS Spring 2010, co-founder of Glancee, later acquired by Facebook; currently at Facebook). MS Thesis: "Analysis and presentation of results for mobile local search"
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Jisha Abubaker (MS fall 2008). MS Thesis: "Semantic Role Labeling: Generalizing To Unseen Verbs Using VerbNet"
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SuNam Kim (moved to Univ. of Melbourne summer 05) worked on inductive logic programming for discourse relations
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Dan Yu (MS Summer 04, currently at Albert A. Webb Associates, Riverside, CA) worked on DIAG-NLP
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Yijue Hou (MS summer 03) worked on DIAG-NLP
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Riccardo Serafin (MS Summer 03, currently at Scientific Institute H. San Raffaele, Milano, Italy) worked on extending LSA to recognize dialogue acts
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Vijaysenthil Veeriah (MS summer 03)
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Tejaswini Pendyala (MS summer 02) worked on applying LSA to one of our tutoring corpora
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Elena Terenzi (MS summer 02) worked on coupling LCFLEX with VerbNet
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Mike Trolio (MS Dec. 00) worked on generating instructional dialogue
- Kai-Hua Xiang (MS Dec. 00) worked on Machine Learning for generating cue phrases
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