Students and postdocs
Krugman has never had many graduate students. He is unsure why this is so. Is it that his style of thinking, intuitive rather than methodological, is too difficult to imitate? he wonders. Is he too distracted? Too busy? Too short? — Larissa MacFarquhar, New Yorker profile
I have been incredibly lucky to serve as the advisor of a
spectacular bunch of people. As I say elsewhere, my research trajectory
has really just involved following their lead. My debt to them is unbounded.
PhD students and postdocs (and 1st position afterwards).
During their time as students at Cornell, my students gave invited talks or interviews at
Bar-Ilan, CMU, CUNY, EPFL, Facebook, Google, the Max Planck
institute, Microsoft Research, MIT, Northeastern, Pitt, Rice, Stanford, SUNY Stonybrook, the Technion, UC Boulder, UMass Amherst, University of
Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, and Yahoo!.
- Tianze Shi
Bloomberg Data Science Fellowship, 2018-2019; EMNLP 2018 Best Reviewer (100 chosen = top 7 percent)
- Ana Smith
Cornell Colman Fellowship (three years full tuition, stipend, and conference travel support); Fulbright Scholar; Provost Diversity Fellowship; NextGen Professor 2020-2021 cohort
- Regina Barzilay, postdoc 2002-2003 → assistant professor, MIT
Recipient: Just about every award eligible for
- Cristian
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Ph.D. 2012 → tenure-track position, the Max Planck Institute SWS (deferred for a one-year postdoc at Stanford)
Co-recipient: Best Paper Award at WWW 2013, Best Paper Award at the IJCAI 2016 workshop on NLP meets Journalism, Best Paper Award at CSCW 2017, etc.
Thesis: A computational approach to linguistic coordination
- Jack Hessel, Ph.D. 2020 → Allen Institute for AI as a Young Investigator
Recipient: EMNLP 2018 Best Reviewer (100 chosen = top 7 percent) and 2019; ACL 2020 Outstanding Reviewer
Thesis: Learning from multimodal web data
- Rie Johnson (formerly Rie Kubota Ando) Ph.D. 2001 → IBM Watson
Recipient: Best
Paper Award, CoNLL 2006
Thesis: The Document Representation Problem: An Analysis of LSI and
Iterative Residual Rescaling
- Oren Kurland, Ph.D. 2006 → tenure-track Lecturer at the Technion
Thesis: Inter-document similarities, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval
- Bo
Pang [pronunciation], Ph.D. 2006 → Yahoo! Research
Featured scientist at
Yahoo! Research; 2018 Test-of-Time Paper on Computational Linguistics, 2002-2012
Thesis: Automatic
analysis of document sentiment.
- Chenhao Tan, Ph.D. 2016 → assistant professor, University of Colorado-Boulder deferred for postdoc at UW with Noah Smith
Recipient, Facebook Fellowship in HCI and Social Computing, 2015, Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges Award, 2012
Thesis (the 7th longest title in the department so far): Computational approaches to understanding human behavior from online social interactions: Language and communities
Undergraduate co-authors
- Mohit Bansal (summer intern 2007 → Berkeley): Bansal, Cardie & Lee COLING 2008 poster, The
power of negative thinking: Exploiting label disagreement in the
min-cut classification framework [paper homepage]
COLING area chair favorites paper, 2018, ACL outstanding paper, 2017, best paper, ACL workshop on representation learning for NLP, 2016, NVidia paper award, NIPS workshop on multimodal machine learning, 2015, ACL honorable mention, 2014
- Justin Cheng, B.S. 2012 → Stanford; Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cheng, Kleinberg
& Lee ACL 2012, You had me at hello: How phrasing affects
memorability. [paper homepage]
Best paper award, CSCW 2017; Honorable mentions, ICWSM 2015, CHI 2015 (for two papers), CSCW 2015, Co-Winner, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (Male), 2012
- Eunsol Choi, B.A. 2012 → UWashington; Choi, Tan, Lee, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil & Spindel ACL Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics, 2012, Hedge detection as a lens on framing in the GMO debates: A position paper. [paper homepage]
Honorable Mention, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (Female), 2012
- Rick Ducott, B.S. 2010 → Palantir: Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lee, & Ducott NAACL 2009, Without
a ‘doubt’? Unsupervised discovery of downward-entailing
operators [paper homepage]
- Matt Thomas, B.S. 2006 → Google: Thomas, Pang & Lee EMNLP 2006, Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts. [paper homepage]
- Mark Yatskar, B.S. 2010 → UWashington: Yatskar, Pang, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, & Lee NAACL 2010 short paper, For the sake of simplicity: Unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications from Wikipedia. [paper homepage]
Best long paper award at EMNLP 2017; Profiled as one of Cornell's 20 dynamic members of the class of 2010
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