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Faculty

Some alums (!) (first position indicated)

  • Rie Johnson (Ando), PhD 2001 → IBM
    Thesis: The Document Representation Problem: An Analysis of LSI and Iterative Residual Rescaling (pdf )
  • Steve Baker, BA 2003 → UCBerkeley/Google
  • Regina Barzilay, postdoc 2002-2003 → MIT
  • John Blitzer, 2002 BA → UPenn
  • Amanda Holland-Minkley, PhD 2004→ Washington and Jefferson
    Thesis: Restructuring Formal Mathematics for Natural Texts (pdf)
  • Dan Klein, BA 1998 → Stanford
  • Oren Kurland, PhD 2006 → the Technion
    Thesis: Inter-document similarities, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval (pdf)
  • Scott Mardis (PhD 2000 → MITRE)
  • Mandar Mitra, PhD 1999 → the Indian Statistical Institute
  • Vincent Ng, PhD 2004 → UTDallas
    Thesis: Improving Machine Learning Approaches to Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution
  • Bo Pang, PhD 2006 → Yahoo! Research
    Thesis: Automatic analysis of document sentiment
  • David Pierce, PhD 2002 → SUNY Buffalo
  • Amit Singhal, PhD → AT&T Research (→ Google ...)
  • Matt Thomas, BS 2006 → Google
  • Kiri Wagstaff, PhD 2002 → JHU
    Thesis: Intelligent Clustering with Instance-Level Constraints

Other Cornell alums include Sandra Carberry, Barbara Grosz, Lillian Lee, and the many IR researchers who were students of Gerry Salton.

Students

  • Eric Breck, computer science
  • Yejin Choi, computer science
  • Tejaswini Deoskar, linguistics
  • Effi Georgala, linguistics
  • Ves Stoyanov, computer science
  • Yuping Zhou, linguistics

Visitors

  • Mohit Bansal, IIT Kanpur (Summer 2007)
  • Xiaoyan Zhu, Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University (Fall 2006)