Students
I look for students from diverse backgrounds who share my group's mission and have, or want to develop, technical depth in NLP, HCI, or both. Strong candidates will have a solid mathematical foundation, programming experience, and research experience or clear potential in NLP, ML, or computational HCI. A commitment to collaborative and inclusive work is essential.
To discuss opportunities, get in touch and tell me how your background fits. I don't respond to generic emails. I do not offer positions to students external to UMD.
Current UMD students: take one of my courses. Prospective PhD applicants: list NLP as your area and name me as first or second choice. I read applications closely.
Current Students
Calvin Bao
PhD, Computer Science
Hyojung Han
PhD, Computer Science · co-advised with Jordan Boyd-Graber
Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award 2022
Dayeon (Zoey) Ki
PhD, Computer Science
Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award 2026
Osvaldo Quinjica
PhD, Computer Science
Hieu Tran
PhD, Computer Science
Kartik Ravisankar
MSc, AMSC
Eric Bennett
BSc, Computer Science & Chinese
Aarush Vinod
BSc, Computer Science
Alumni
Eleftheria Briakou
PhD, Computer Science
AMTA Best Thesis Award 2024
Sweta Agrawal
PhD, Computer Science
Ann S. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
Weijia Xu
PhD, Computer Science
Ann S. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
Aquia Richburg
PhD, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Marianna Martindale
PhD, iSchool
Yogarshi Vyas
PhD, Computer Science
Xing Niu
PhD, Computer Science
Elijah Rippeth
MSc, Computer Science