Speech and Language @ TTIC: News

Karen Livescu has been named a 2025 IEEE Fellow for contributions to multi-view and pre-trained speech representation learning. Congrats, Karen!

Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024. Congrats to Kanishka and his collaborator Kyle Mahowald at UT Austin!

Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2024. Congrats to Karen and collaborators William Chen, Wangyou Zhang, Yifan Peng, Xinjian Li, Jinchuan Tian, Jiatong Shi, Xuankai Chang, Soumi Maiti, and Shinji Watanabe at CMU!

Marcelo Beramendi Caballero, Jiamin (Jessica) Yang, and Tianyang (Sally) Xu join as new Ph.D. students. Welcome, Marcelo, Jessica, and Sally!

Lingyu Gao, Freda Shi, and Davis Yoshida have graduated. In addition, Freda’s thesis was designated a Thesis of Distinction by TTIC. Congrats, all!

Kanishka Misra and Zhewei Sun join as new Research Assistant Professors. Welcome, Kanishka and Zhewei!

Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2024. Congrats to TTIC student Davis Yoshida and former TTIC faculty Kevin Gimpel and Kartik Goyal

Jiawei (Joe) Zhou, Research Asssistant Professor 2023-24, has joined Stony Brook University as an Assistant Professor. Congrats, Joe!

Best Student Paper Award at ASRU 2023. Congrats to TTIC students Chung-Ming Chien and Ju-Chieh Chou and U. Chicago Ph.D. student Mingjiamei Zhang

TTIC submission to the Second WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT), led by Marcelo Sandoval-Castañeda, is the top system (see the results here). Congrats, Marcelo and all!

Ph.D. student Chung-Ming Chien wins Taiwan Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (GSSA). Congrats, Chung-Ming!

Test of Time Runner-Up Award at ICML 2023. Congrats to Karen Livescu, RAP alumnus Raman Arora, and collaborators Galen Andrew and Jeff Bilmes!

Shane Settle, Bowen Shi, and Qingming Tang have graduated. In addition, Bowen’s thesis was designated a Thesis of Distinction by TTIC. Congrats, all!

Jungo Kasai and Jiawei (Joe) Zhou join as new Research Assistant Professors. Welcome, Jungo and Joe!

Kartik Goyal, Research Assistant Professor 2021-2023, is now Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Congrats, Kartik!

Ph.D. student Freda Shi wins Best Talk Award at the TTIC Student Workshop. Congrats, Freda!

TTIC submission to the WMT Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT) shared task, led by Bowen Shi, is among the top two systems (see the results here). Congrats, Bowen and all!

Chung-Ming Chien joins as a new Ph.D. student. Welcome, Chung-Ming!

Shubham Toshniwal and Mingda Chen have graduated and are now Research Scientists at Meta AI. Congrats, Mingda and Shubham!

Freda Shi has been awarded a Google PhD Fellowship in Natural Language Processing. Congrats, Freda!

Best Short Paper Award at the Fourth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora, and Coreference (CRAC) 2021. Congrats to Ph.D. student Shubham Toshniwal, co-first author Patrick Xia, and all of the co-authors!

Ju-Chieh Chou joins as a new Ph.D. student. Welcome, Ju-Chieh!

Kartik Goyal and Hongyuan Mei join as new Research Assistant Professors. Welcome, Hongyuan and Kartik!

Lifu Tu has graduated and is now a Research Scientist at Salesforce Research. Congrats, Lifu!

Mingda Chen has been awarded a Google PhD Fellowship in Natural Language Processing. Congrats, Mingda!

Ph.D. alumnus Hao Tang is now Lecturer at University of Edinburgh. Congrats, Hao!

Mrinmaya Sachan, Research Assistant Professor 2019-2020, is now Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich. Congrats, Mrinmaya!

Hai Wang and Takeshi Onishi have graduated. Congrats, Takeshi and Hai!

Karl Stratos, Research Assistant Professor 2018-2020, is now Assistant Professor at Rutgers. Congrats, Karl!

The Chicago Fingerspelling in the Wild data sets are now available here.

Mrinmaya Sachan joins TTIC as a Research Assistant Professor

David Yunis joins as a new Ph.D. student in fall 2019

Paper on Visually Grounded Neural Syntax Acquisition is a Best Paper nominee at ACL 2019. Congrats to Ph.D. student Freda Shi, collaborator Jiayuan Mao, and Profs. Kevin Gimnpel and Karen Livescu

Freda Shi joins as a new Ph.D. student in fall 2018

Allyson Ettinger and Sam Wiseman join TTIC as Research Assistant Professors

Ph.D. student Bowen Shi won a poster prize at the Midwest Machine Learning Symposium (MMLS). Congrats, Bowen!

Weiran Wang, post-doc 2014-2017, is now a Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon Alexa. Congrats, Weiran!

We welcome three new Ph.D. students in fall 2017: Lingyu Gao, Ankita Pasad, and Davis Yoshida

Hao Tang has successfully defended and submitted his Ph.D. thesis, and is now a post-doc at MIT. Congrats, Hao!

Liang Lu, Research Assistant Professor 2016-2017, is now at Microsoft. Congrats, Liang!

Two Best Paper Awards at ACL RepL4NLP 2017 workshop. Congrats to Ph.D. students Lifu Tu, Hai Wang, and Takeshi Onishi

Herman Kamper, post-doc 2017, is now a lecturer at Stellenbosch University. Congrats, Herman!

Karl Stratos joins TTIC as a Research Assistant Professor

The Who-did-What data set and leaderboard are now available here.

Liang Lu joins TTIC as a Research Assistant Professor

Taehwan Kim has successfully defended and submitted his Ph.D. thesis, and is now a post-doc at Caltech. Congrats, Taehwan!

Mohit Bansal, Research Assistant Professor 2014-2016, is now an Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill. Congrats, Mohit!

Paper on mapping unseen words wins Best Paper Award at ACL RepL4NLP workshop. Congrats to visiting student alumnus Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha!

Congrats to Hao Tang and Taehwan Kim for Student Paper Award recognition at ICASSP 2016!