The Ph.D. degree is the highest form of academic accomplishment. The Ph.D. dissertations below present some of the most advanced research being done at the time of their publication.
2021
| Graduate | Advisor(s) | Dissertation | Employer Upon Graduation |
| Maria Joana Correia | Raj, Trancoso | In-the-wild detection of speech affecting diseases | Research Scientist, Spotify |
| Kartik Goyal | Dyer | Characterizing and Overcoming the Limitations of Neural Autoregressive Models | Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago |
| Hiroaki Hayashi | Neubig | Neural Aspect-based Text Generation | Researcher, Salesforce |
| Junjie Hu | Neubig | Leveraging Word and Phrase Alignments for Multilingual Learning | Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Po Yao Huang | Hauptmann | Towards Multilingual Vision-Language Models | Research Scientist, Facebook AI |
| Harsh Jhamtani | Berg-Kirkpatrick | Grounded Natural Language Generation via Interpretable Hierarchical Operations | Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research |
| Yohan Jo | Hovy | Toward Computational Argumentation with Reasoning and Knowledge | Applied Scientist, Amazon |
| Guokun Lai | Yang | Neural Sequential Modeling and Applications | Research Scientist, Bytedance |
| Junwei Liang | Hauptmann | From Recognition to Prediction: Analysis of Human Action and Trajectory Prediction in Video | Computer Vision Researcher, Tencent |
| Paul Michel | Neubig | Learning Neural Models for Natural Language Processing in the Face of Distributional Shift | Laplace Post-Doctoral Chair, Ecole Normale Superieure |
| Shrimai Prabhumoye | Black, Salakhutdinov | Controllable Text Generation And Ethical Implications | |
| Hugo Patinho Rodrigues | Nyberg, Coheur | Learning Semantic Patterns for Question Generation | Software Engineer at freiheit.com technologies |
| Qinlan Shen | Rosé | Evaluating and Recontextualizing the Social Impacts of Moderating Online Discussions | Research Scientist, Oracle Labs |
| Zirui (Edward) Wang | Tsvetkov, Strubell | Mitigating Negative Transfer for Better Generalization and Efficiency in Transfer Learning | Research Scientist, Google |
| Pengcheng Yin | Neubig | Learning Structured Neural Semantic Parsers | Research Scientist, Google Research |
| Michael Miller Yoder | Rosé | Computational Models of Identity Presentation in Language | Postdoctoral Researcher, Collaboratory Against Hate & Center for Informed Democracy and Social-cybersecurity, CMU |
2020
2019
| Graduate | Advisor(s) | Dissertation | Employer Upon Graduation |
| Pradeep Dasigi | Hovy | Knowledge-Aware Natural Language Understanding | Research Scientist Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
| Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang | Bigham | A Crowd-Powered Conversational Assistant that Automates Itself Over Time | Asst. Professor, Penn State |
| Austin Matthews | Dyer | Linguistic Knowledge for Neural Language Generation and Machine Translation | Unbabel, Pittsburgh |
| Pedro Mota | Eskenazi, Coheur | BeamSeg: a Joint Model for Multi-Document Segmentation and Topic Identification | inesc id, Lisboa |
| Swabha Swayamdipta | Smith, Dyer | Syntactic Inductive Biases for Natural Language Processing | Assistant Professor, University of Southern California |
| Samuel Thomson | Smith | Encoding and Decoding Graph Representations of Natural Language | Researcher at Semantic Machines |
| Di Wang | Nyberg | Example-Driven Question Answering | CTO, Wooboo, Inc. |
| Ruochen Xu | Yang | Learning Cross-language and Cross-style Mappings with Limited Supervision | Researcher at Microsoft Redmond |
| Diyi Yang | Kraut, Hovy | Computational Social Roles | Post-Doc, Google, Fall 2019 - Assistant Professor Georgia Tech. |
| Zhilin Yang | Salakhutdinov, Cohen | Advances in Generative Feature Learning | Start up |
| Ran Zhao | Rudnicky, Black | Socially-Aware Dialogue System | Bain & Company, Asia |
| Tiancheng (Tony) Zhao | Eskenazi | Learning to Converse with Latent Actions | CEO, Scientist - ConvMind |
2018
| Graduate | Advisor(s) | Dissertation | Employer Upon Graduation |
| Jun Araki | Mitamura | Extraction of Event Structures from Text | Senior Research Scientist at Bosch Research |
| Pallavi Baljekar | Black | Speech Synthesis from Found Data | |
| Leonid Boytsov | Nyberg | Efficient and Accurate Non-Metric k-NN Search with Applications to Text Matching | Research Scientist at 3M/M*Modal |
| Xinlei Chen | Gupta | Visual Knowledge Learning | Research Scientist at Facebook |
| Justin Chiu | Rudnicky | Features for Search and Understanding of Noisy Conversational Speech | Research Engineer at Avrio AI |
| Rui Correia | Eskenazi, Mamede | Automatic Classification of Metadiscourse | inesc id, Lisboa |
| Jeffrey Flanigan | Carbonell | Parsing and Generation for the Abstract Meaning Representation | Post-Doc, UMass - Fall 19 - Asst. Professor, UC Santa Cruz |
| Andrew Hsi | Yang, Carbonell | Event Extraction for Document-Level Structured Summarization | Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP |
| Rose Kanjirathinkal | Cohen | Explainable Recommendations | Research Scientist, Facebook |
| Yubin Kim | Callan | Robust Selective Search | Senior Data Scientist, UPMC Enterprises |
| Anurag Kumar | Raj | Acoustic Intelligence in Machines | Research Scientist, Facebook |
| Hanxiao Liu | Yang | Large-Scale Machine Learning over Graphs | Research Scientist, Google |
| Seungwhan Moon | Carbonell | Proactive Transfer Learning | Research Scientist, Facebook |
| Keerthiram Murugesan | Carbonell | Online and Adaptive Methods for Multitask Learning | Research Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr. |
| Yun Wang | Metze | Polyphonic Sound Event Detection with Weak Labeling | Research Scientist, Facebook |
| Chenyan Xiong | Callan | Text Representation, Retrieval, and Understanding with Knowledge Graphs | Research Scientist at Microsoft Research & AI |
| Guoqing Zheng | Yang, Carbonell | Empowering Probabilistic Inference with Stochastic Deep Neural Networks | Research Scientist at Microsoft Research |
2017
| Graduate | Advisor(s) | Dissertation | Employer Upon Graduation |
| Hyeju Jang | Rosé | Computational Modeling of Metaphor in Discourse | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia |
| Sujay Kumar Jauhar | Hovy | A Relation-Centric View of Semantic Representational Learning | Research Scientist, Microsoft Research |
| Lu Jiang | Mitamura | Web-scale Multimedia Search for Internet Video Content | Google Research |
| Lingpeng Kong | Smith, Dyer | Neural Representation Learning in Linguistic Structured Prediction | Research Scientist, Google DeepMind |
| Zhen-Zhong Lan | Hauptmann | Towards Usable Multimedia Event Detection | Computer Vision Researcher, WiZR |
| Rui Liu | Nyberg | A Phased Ranking Model for Information Systems | Amazon |
| Zhou Yu | Black | Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems | Assistant Professor, UC Davis |