People
Graduated Students
A list of graduate students I have supervised (as senior supervisor).
Phd (Total: 9)
MSc (Total: 26)
- Moradi, Pooya. Training with adversaries to improve faithfulness of attention in neural machine translation. (from: Fall 2018 to: Summer 2020)
- Zhu, Zhenqi. Deconstructing supertagging into multi-task sequence prediction. (from: Fall 2018 to: Spring 2020)
- Ghobadipasha, Nadia. Translation versus Language Model Pre-training Objectives for Word Sense Disambiguation. (from: Fall 2017 to: Fall 2019)
- Gu, Yilong. Exploiting Target Syntax with Structured Decoding. (from: Fall 2018 to: Summer 2019)
- Kambhatla, Nishant. Decipherment of substitution ciphers with neural language models. (from: Fall 2016 to: Summer 2018)
- Vacariu, Andrei. A high-throughput dependency parser. (from: Fall 2016 to: Fall 2017)
- Born, Logan. Properties of prefix lexicalized synchronous grammars. (from: Fall 2016 to: Summer 2018)
- Kou, Xinxin. Speed versus accuracy in neural sequence tagging for natural language processing. (from: Fall 2015 to: Fall 2017)
- Wu, Zhelun. Decipherment of Evasive or Encrypted Offensive Text. (from: Fall 2014 to: Summer 2016)
- Shavarani, Sayyedhassan. Training Data Annotation for Segmentation Classification in Translation. (from: Fall 2014 to: Spring 2016)
- Soleimani Nasab, Mohammad Mahdi. On the Importance of Decoding in Semi-supervised Learning. (from: Spring 2014 to: Spring 2016)
- Bu, Te. Joint Prediction of Word Alignment and Alignment Types for Statistical Machine Translation. (from: Fall 2013 to: Fall 2015)
- Mehdizadeh Seraj, Ramtin. Paraphrases for Statistical Machine Translation. (from: Fall 2013 to: Fall 2015)
- Sabharwal, Jasneet. Bilingual Language Models using Word Embeddings for Machine Translation. (from: Fall 2013 to: Summer 2016)
- Dholakia, Rohit. Real-world Use of Pivot Languages to Translate Low-resource Languages. (from: Fall 2012 to: Spring 2014)
- Vadlapudi, Ravikiran. Verbose Labels for Semantic Roles. (from: Spring 2011 to: Spring 2013)
- Razavi, Marzieh. Ensembles of Diverse Clustering-based Discriminative Dependency Parsers. (from: Fall 2010 to: Summer 2012)
- Whitney, Max. Bootstrapping via Graph Propagation. (from: Fall 2010 to: Summer 2012)
- Kim, Youngchan. Bidirectional Segmentation for English-Korean Machine Translation. (from: Fall 2009 to: Spring 2012)
- Clifton, Ann. Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation. (from: Fall 2008 to: Summer 2010)
- Grewal, Ajeetpal. Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation. (from: Fall 2007 to: Fall 2009)
- Song, Dong. Experimental Comparison of Discriminative Learning Approaches for Chinese Word Segmentation. (from: Fall 2005 to: Summer 2008)
- Gattani, Akshay. Automated Natural Language Headline Generation. (from: Fall 2004 to: Spring 2007)
- Shen, Hong. Voting Between Multiple Data Representations for Text Chunking. (from: Fall 2002 to: Summer 2004)
- Birke, Julia. A Clustering Approach for the Unsupervised Recognition of Nonliteral Language. (from: Spring 2002 to: Summer 2005)
- Zhang, Yingjian. Prediction of Financial Time Series with Hidden Markov Models. (from: Fall 2001 to: Summer 2004)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Current Graduate Students
Graduate students I am currently supervising (as senior supervisor).
Phd (Total: 4)
- Gu, Yilong (started: Fall 2019)
- Born, Logan (started: Fall 2019)
- Kambhatla, Nishant (started: Fall 2018)
- Shavarani, Sayyedhassan (started: Fall 2017)
MSc (Total: 1)
- Huang, Xiang (started: Fall 2019)
Undergraduates
Undergraduate students who have worked with me as a Research Assistant.
- Chilana, Parmit
(
Spring 2003
Summer 2003
)
» Phd U of Washington » Tenure-track Waterloo » Associate Professor at SFU
- Whitney, Max
(
Fall 2008
Summer 2009
)
» MSc with me » Emtelligent
- Faruqui, Manaal
(
Summer 2009
)
» CMU PhD » Google
- Chatterjee, Diptesh
(
Summer 2010
)
» Google India » Rocket Fuel » FireEye
- Kong, Mengyun
(
Summer 2011
)
- Jiang, Yuhuan
(
Summer 2013
)
- Zhang, Haotian
(
Summer 2013
)
- Patange, Utkarsh
(
Summer 2014
)
- Wang, Ziqi
(
Summer 2013
Spring 2014
)
» CMU MSc
- Huang, Yulan
(
Spring 2014
Summer 2014
Spring 2015
)
» CMU MSc
- Yan, Sun
(
Fall 2014
)
» SFU MSc
- Fu, Di
(
Fall 2014
)
» SFU MSc
- Jin, Torres
(
Summer 2015
)
- Vacariu, Andrei
(
Spring 2015
Summer 2015
Fall 2015
Summer 2016
)
» SFU MSc
- Wang, Yizhou
(
Summer 2015
Fall 2015
Spring 2016
)
» Yale MSc
- La, Sean
(
Spring 2016
)
- Chen, (Kingston) Jingda
(
Spring 2016
Summer 2016
)
- Gu, (Jetic) Yilong
(
Spring 2016
Summer 2016
Fall 2016
Spring 2017
Summer 2017
Fall 2017
)
- Ke, (Ryoma) Jiahao
(
Summer 2016
)
- Liu, (Luke) Shiqi
(
Summer 2016
)
- Li, (Jerry) Jiaqi
(
Summer 2016
)
- Avvaru, Pravalika
(
Summer 2016
)
- Pancholi, Chinmaya
(
Summer 2017
)
- Finnigan, Caitlin
(
Summer 2018
)
- Ruoyi Wang
(
Summer 2018
)
Students Supervised
I served as Supervisor on the thesis committee of these graduated students.
Phd (Total: 12)
- Muralidharan, Srikanth (from: Summer 2016 to: Summer 2020)
- Deng, Zhiwei (from: Spring 2016 to: Fall 2019)
- Odilinye, Lydia (from: Summer 2013 to: Fall 2019)
- Kamalzadeh, Mohsen (from: Summer 2013 to: Summer 2020)
- Shapovalova, Nataliya (from: Fall 2011 to: Fall 2014)
- Hajimirsadeghi, Seyed (from: Summer 2011 to: Fall 2015)
- Han, Chao (from: Fall 2010 to: Spring 2016)
- Lan, Tian (from: Fall 2010 to: Summer 2013)
- Roy, Maxim (from: Spring 2006 to: Spring 2010)
- Wang, Yang (from: Fall 2004 to: Fall 2009)
- Melli, Gabor (from: Fall 2003 to: Fall 2010)
- Shi, Zhongmin (from: Fall 2002 to: Fall 2007)
MSc (Total: 26)
- Kochiev, Leon (from: Fall 2019 to: Fall 2021)
- Gholami, Ali (from: Fall 2019 to: Spring 2022)
- Alzeer, Bdour (from: Fall 2017 to: Fall 2019)
- Ambartsoumian, Artaches (from: Summer 2017 to: Fall 2018)
- Abdu Jyothi, Akash (from: Fall 2016 to: Summer 2018)
- Gujjar, Pratik (from: Fall 2016 to: Fall 2018)
- Nikdel, Payam (from: Fall 2016 to: Fall 2018)
- Chowdhury, Wasifa (from: Fall 2015 to: Fall 2019)
- Rashedi Nia, Karoon (from: Fall 2015 to: Spring 2017)
- Naz, Fariha (from: Fall 2015 to: Fall 2019)
- Tran, Khoa (from: Fall 2014 to: Fall 2016)
- Ellert, Bradley (from: Fall 2013 to: Summer 2015)
- Wang, Hao (from: Fall 2012 to: Spring 2015)
- Zhan, Fei (from: Fall 2012 to: Fall 2014)
- Sefidgar, Yasaman (from: Spring 2012 to: Spring 2014)
- Lindberg, David (from: Spring 2011 to: Summer 2013)
- Cheng, Carson (from: Fall 2009 to: Summer 2011)
- Sankaranarayanan, Ananth Narayan (from: Fall 2008 to: Summer 2011)
- Zhang, Qiang (from: Fall 2008 to: Summer 2010)
- Fathi, Alireza (from: Fall 2006 to: Summer 2008)
- Mostafavi Kashani, Mehdi (from: Fall 2004 to: Fall 2007)
- Wang, Yang (from: Fall 2003 to: Fall 2006)
- Chakraborty, Sourav (from: Fall 2002 to: Spring 2005)
- Chen, Fei (from: Fall 2001 to: Summer 2004)
- Leung, Chi (from: Spring 2001 to: Summer 2005)
- Qu, Hongfei (from: Spring 2001 to: Summer 2003)
