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Application Deadline: February 15, 2022
NLP Faculty
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Adjunct Professor and Lecturer, Computer Science and Engineering adratnap@ucsc.edu |
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering jmflanig@ucsc.edu |
Distinguished Visiting Professor 
Senior Principal Scientist Amazon Alexa AI dhakkani@ucsc.edu |
Visiting Professor 
Researcher, Manager, Master Inventor and Academy of Technology Member IBM Almaden Research jumahmud@ucsc.edu |
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Computational Models of Dialogue Conversational Agents Natural Language Processing Models of Expressive & Stylistic Variation in Language |
Conversational Systems Computational Advertising Machine Learning |
Semantic Parsing Language Generation from Semantic Structures Deep Learning & Machine Learning Machine Translation |
Conversational AI Natural Language & Speech Processing Spoken Dialogue Systems Machine Learning for Language Processing |
Applied Machine Learning Data Mining Computational User Modeling Intelligent User Interface Web Analytics |
Pranav Anand |
Luca de Alfaro |
 Jean E Fox Tree |
Lise Getoor |
Yang Liu |
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Computational Linguistics Discourse Pragmatics Semantics |
Crowdsourcing Reputation Systems Game Theory & Incentives |
Models of Spontaneous Language Human Computer Interaction Language Processing |
Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Information Extraction Data Science for Social Good |
Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Crowdsourcing Fairness & Security in AI |
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Narges Norouzi |
 Xin Eric Wang |
Yi Zhang |
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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep Learning |
Embodied AI Grounded Natural Language Processing Computer Vision Machine Learning |
Conversational Search & Recommendation Information Retrieval Text Mining Machine Learning |
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Industry Advisory Board
The Industry Advisory Board consists of scientists and practitioners working in NLP in industry with a broad view of the field. The industry advisory board provides input on the academic aspects of the program and helps ensure that the program curriculum provides the training that industry wants and needs in the NLP area.
VP AI Research Interactions LLC |
AI and Mathematics Research Scientist |
Senior Manager & Leader Facebook AI |
Senior Research Manager IBM |
Machine Learning Manager Amazon
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 Sarangarajan (Partha) Parthasarathy Principal Scientist Microsoft |
Founder & Researcher Page Street Labs |
Founder & CEO Stealth Startup |
Data Science and AI Advisor
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Principal Staff Engineer |
Senior Principal Scientist Amazon Alexa AI |
Program Contacts
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Professor Marilyn Walker mawalker@ucsc.edu |
Dr. Adwait Ratnaparkhi adratnap@ucsc.edu |
Jay Noh nlp@ucsc.edu |
Emelye Neff cse-gradadvising@ucsc.edu |
Alumni
Name |
Year |
Mamon Nasir Alsalihy  |
2020-2021 |
| Jeshwanth Bheemanpally |
2020-2021 |
| Raghav Chaudhary |
2020-2021 |
| Morgan Eidam |
2020-2021 |
| Jonathan Adam Fidler |
2020-2021 |
| Christopher Garcia-Cordova |
2020-2021 |
| Tianxiao Jiang |
2020-2021 |
| Austin King |
2020-2021 |
| Kit Lao |
2020-2021 |
| John Lara |
2020-2021 |
| Phillip Lee |
2020-2021 |
| David Li |
2020-2021 |
| Yueyi (Cecilia) Li |
2020-2021 |
| Alexander Lue |
2020-2021 |
| Nilay Patel |
2020-2021 |
| Angela Maria Ramirez |
2020-2021 |
| Sam Shamsan | 2020-2021 |
| Zachary Isonio Sweet |
2020-2021 |
| Liren Wu |
2020-2021 |
| Eduardo Zamora |
2020-2021 |