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

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!.

• 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.
• Tianze Shi, Ph.D. 2021 → Google
  Bloomberg Data Science Fellowship, 2018-2019; top score in the 2021 IWPT shared task; best/oustanding reviewer award, EMNLP 2018, EMNLP 2019, ACL 2021
  Thesis: Enhanced representations and efficient analysis of syntactic dependencies within and beyond tree structures
• 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 at the time): 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
• Karen Zhou, B.S. 2021 → UChicago. Zhou, Smith, & Lee, 2021 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, Assessing cognitive linguistic influences in the assignment of blame