LTI Ph.D. Dissertations - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science

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.

2024

Graduate	Advisor(s)	Dissertation	Employer Upon Graduation
James Fiacco	Rosé	Functional Components as a Paradigm for Neural Model Explainability

2023

Graduate	Advisor(s)	Dissertation	Employer Upon Graduation
Chaitanya Ahuja	Morency	Communication Beyond Words: Grounding Visual Body Motion with Language	Researcher, Meta
Prakhar Gupta	Bigham	Improving Reliability in Dialogue Systems	Research Scientist, Google
Sachin Kumar	Tsvetkov	Optimization Methods For Modeling Diversity In Language Technologies	Post-Doc AI2, Asst Professor, Ohio State University
Juncheng Billy Li	Metze	Towards Robust Large-scale Audio/Visual Learning	Quantitative Researcher, Two Sigma Investment
Xinjian Li	Watanabe, Black	Low-Resource Speech Recognition for Thousands of Languages	Research Scientist, Google
Kaixin Ma	Nyberg	Hybrid Knowledge Architectures for Question Answering	NLP Researcher, Tencent AI Lab
Salvador Bedredín Medina Maza	Hauptmann	Talking us into the Metaverse: Towards Realistic Streaming Speech-to-Face Animation	Research Scientist, Epic Games
Sanket Vaibhav Mehta	Strubell	Efficient Lifelong Learning in Deep Neural Networks: Optimizing Architecture, Training, and Data	Research Scientist, Google
Chirag Nagpal	Dubrawski	Leveraging Heterogeneity in Time-to-Event Predictions	Research Scientist, Google
Raphaël Olivier	Raj	Assessing and enhancing adversarial robustness in context and applications to speech security
Naoki Otani	Hovy	Leveraging Eventuality-Centric Implicit Knowledge for Natural Language Understanding	Research Scientist, Megagon Labs
Hai Pham	Póczos, Woodruff	Towards Efficient and Scalable Representation Learning	Technical Staff, Reka AI
Torsten Wörtwein	Morency	Towards Improving Transparency in Multimodal Affect Perception	Multimodal AI/ML Engineer, ETS
Donghan Yu	Yang	Leveraging Textual Semantics for Knowledge Graph Acquisition and Application	Senior Researcher, Microsoft
Shikun Zhang	Sadeh	Understanding People’s Diverse Privacy Attitudes: Notification, Control, and Regulatory Implications	TikTok
Zhisong Zhang	Hovy, Strubell	Exploring Language Structured Prediction in Resource-limited Scenarios
Zhong Zhou	Waibel	Massively Multilingual Text Translation for Low-Resource Languages

2022

Graduate	Advisor(s)	Dissertation	Employer Upon Graduation
Khyathi Raghavi Chandu	Black	Effective Anchoring of Multiview Narrative Generation	Research Scientist, Meta AI
Aditi Swanand Chaudhary	Neubig	Automatic Extraction and Application of Language Descriptions for Under-Resourced Languages	Researcher, Google Research
Volkan Cirik	Morency, Berg-Kirkpatrick	Understanding Language Referring To The VisualWorld	Research Scientist, ASAPP
Siddharth Dalmia	Metze, Black	Exploiting Compositionality in Sequence Models	Research Scientist, Google
Anjalie Field	Tsvetkov	Integrating Language Technologies and Social Theories	Post-Doctoral Fellow - Stanford University
Jonathan Francis	Nyberg, Oh	Knowledge-enhanced Representation Learning for Multiview Context Understanding	Research Scientist, Bosch
Varun Gangal	Hovy	A Suite of Low-Data Generation Settings Necessitating Interventions on End-to-End NLG Models	Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Clemson University (SC)
Junxian He	Neubig, Berg-Kirkpatrick	Towards Efficient Natural Language Generation	Tenure Track Asst. Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ting-Yao Hu	Hauptmann	Disentangled Representations beyond Vectors for Multimedia Content	Researcher, Apple Inc.
Divyansh Kaushik	Lipton, Hovy	Robustifying NLP with Humans in the Loop	Associate Director for Emerging Technologies & National Security Policy, Federation of American Scientists
Xiang Kong	Hovy	Towards Efficient Neural Machine Translation	Machine Learning Researcher, Apple
Shikib (Ahmad) Mehri	Eskenazi	Towards Generalization in Dialog through Inductive Biases	Applied Scientist II - Amazon (Sunnyvale)
Aakanksha Naik	Rosé	Adapting to the Long Tail in Language Understanding	Research Scientist, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Shruti Palaskar	Metze, Black	Multimodal Learning from Videos: Exploring Models and Task Complexities	Research Scientist, Apple
Hy Hieu Pham	Yang, Le	Reducing the Costs to Design, Train, and Collect Data for Neural Networks with Combinatorial Optimization
Dheeraj Rajagopal	Hovy	Explanations for Natural Language: From Theory to Practice	Researcher, Google (Seattle)
Sai Krishna Rallabandi	Black	De-Entanglement: A Framework towards building Ubiquitous speech technologies	Fidelity
Shruti Rijhwani	Neubig	Improving Optical Character Recognition for Endangered Languages	Research Scientist, Google
Maria Ryskina	Gormley, Hovy	Learning Computational Models of Non Standard Language	Post-Doctoral Associate, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
Evangelia Spiliopoulou	Hovy	Modeling Event Implications via Multi-faceted Entity Representations	Applied Scientist, AWS AI Amazon
Xinyi (Cindy) Wang	Neubig	Data Efficient Multilingual Natural Language Processing	Research Scientist, Google
Chunting Zhou	Neubig	Mitigating Semantic and Distributional Discrepancies in Natural Language Processing	Research Scientist, Meta AI

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