Please visit the UCI NLP Lab page for more information about our group.

Current Members

PhD Students

Shivanshu Gupta

UCI (2020-)

Yasaman Razeghi

UCI (2020-)

Kolby Nottingham

UCI (2020-)

Tamanna Hossain

UCI (2021-)

Preethi Sheshadri

UCI (2021-)

Catarina Belem

UCI (2021-)

Yu Fei

UCI (2023-)

Masters Students

• Raj Sangani, (2023-)

• PhD
• Dheeru Dua, UCI (2023). Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
• Anthony Chen, UCI (2023). Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
• Dylan Slack, UCI (2023). Research Scientist, Scale AI
• Pouya Pezeshkpour, UCI (2022). Research Scientist, Megagon Labs
• Robert Logan, UCI (2022). Research Scientist, Dataminr
• Zhengli Zhao, UCI (2020). Machine Learning Engineer, Waymo
• Marco Tulio Ribeiro, UW (co-advised with Carlos Guestrin) (2018). Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research
• Forough Arabshahi, UCI (co-advised with Anima Anandkumar) (2018). Postdoc at CMU
• Past Visitors
• Matt Gardner, Senior Research Scientist, AI2 Irvine (2022). Scaled Cognition
• Sanjay Subramanian, Intern, AI2 Irvine (2021). PhD student at Berkeley
• Qiang Ning, Research Scientist, AI2 Irvine (2020). applied scientist, Amazon
• Orion Weller, Intern, AI2 Irvine (2020). undergrad at Brigham Young University
• Nitish Gupta, Intern, AI2 Irvine (2020). Research Scientist, Google Deepmind
• Eric Wallace, Intern, AI2 Irvine (2019). PhD student at UC Berkeley (now at OpenAI)
• Yizhong Wang, Intern, AI2 Irvine (2018). PhD student at University of Washington
• Yanbing Bai, Visiting Researcher, UCI (2017). Asst. Professor at Renmin Univ of China
• Masters
• Junlin Wang, UCI (2022). PhD student at Duke
• Taylor Shin, UCI (2020). Embodied Inc.
• Chirag Choudhary, UCI (2019). Qualcomm
• Ananya, UCI (2018). Microsoft
• Undergraduates
• Parmik Mehra, (2022).
• Insiya Gunja, (2021).
• Daniel Wen Jiang, (2021).
• Jens Tuyls, UCI (2020). PhD student at Princeton University
• Liyan Chen, UCI (2019). PhD student at UT Austin
• Pasha Khosravi, UCI (2018). PhD student at UCLA
• Chang Gao, UCI Exchange (2018). Waymo
• High School
• Arjun Neervannan (2018-2019). Undergraduate at UPenn
• Nitya Parthasarathy (2017-2018). Undergraduate at MIT

• Nick Gallo, PhD Candidate at UCI, chair: Alex Ihler
• Forest Agostinelli, PhD Candidate at UCI, chair: Pierre Baldi
• Jihyun Park, PhD Candidate at UCI, chair: Padhraic Smyth
• Junkyu Lee, PhD Candidate at UCI, chair: Rina Dechter
• Lars Hertel, PhD Candidate at UCI, chair: Pierre Baldi
• Filjor Broka, PhD Candidate at UCI, chair: Rina Dechter

• Dimitris Kotzias, PhD at UCI (2018), chair: Padhraic Smyth
• Marco Tulio Ribeiro, PhD at UW (2018), chair: Carlos Guestrin
• Qi Lou, PhD at UCI (2018), chair: Alex Ihler
• Moshe Lichman, PhD at UCI (2017), chair: Padhraic Smyth
• William Lam, PhD at UCI (2017), chair: Rina Dechter
• Wei Pei, PhD at UCI (2016), chair: Alex Ihler
• Xiao Ling, PhD at UW (2015), chair: Dan Weld