Speech and Language @ TTIC: People

TTIC is hiring new faculty, both tenure-track and endowed 3-year research faculty, including in speech and language.

We are always looking for motivated PhD students, visiting students, and undergraduate research assistants.

Faculty

Shiry Ginosar

Assistant Professor

Ari Holtzman

Courtesy Faculty

Jungo Kasai

Research Assistant Professor (on leave)

Karen Livescu

Professor

David McAllester

Professor

Hongyuan Mei

Visiting Scientist

Kanishka Misra

Research Assistant Professor

Greg Shakhnarovich

Professor

Zhewei Sun

Research Assistant Professor

Chenhao Tan

Courtesy Faculty

Matthew Walter

Associate Professor

PhD students

Marcelo Beramendi Caballero

Chung-Ming Chien

Ju-Chieh Chou

Ankita Pasad

Marcelo Sandoval-Castañeda

Jessica Yang

David Yunis

Tianyang (Sally) Xu

Visiting students, U. Chicago student collaborators

Shester Gueuwou

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Yanhong Li

University of Chicago

Faculty alumni

Jiawei Zhou

(was Research Assistant Professor; now faculty at Stony Brook U.)

Kevin Gimpel

(was Assistant Professor; now VP of Research at Quillbot)

Kartik Goyal

(was Research Assistant Professor; now faculty at Georgia Tech)

Allyson Ettinger

(was Assistant Professor at U. Chicago and courtesy faculty at TTIC; now at AI2)

Sam Wiseman

(was Research Assistant Professor; now faculty at Duke)

Mrinmaya Sachan

(was Research Assistant Professor; now faculty at ETH Zurich)

Karl Stratos

(was Research Assistant Professor; now faculty at Rutgers)

Liang Lu

(was Research Assistant Professor; now at Microsoft)

Mohit Bansal

(was Research Assistant Professor; now faculty at UNC Chapel Hill)

Raman Arora

(was Research Assistant Professor; now faculty at Johns Hopkins University)

George Papandreou

(was Research Assistant Professor; now at Google)

Joseph Keshet

(was Research Assistant Professor; now faculty at Technion)

PhD student/post-doc alumni

Davis Yoshida

(Ph.D. 2024 → Continua AI)

Freda Shi

(Ph.D. 2024 → U. Waterloo)

Lingyu Gao

(Ph.D. 2024 → ETS)

Shane Settle

(Ph.D. 2023 → Google)

Bowen Shi

(Ph.D. 2023 → Meta)

Qingming Tang

(Ph.D. 2023 → Amazon)

Shubham Toshniwal

(Ph.D. 2022 → NVIDIA)

Mingda Chen

(Ph.D. 2022 → Meta)

Lifu Tu

(Ph.D. 2021 → Salesforce)

Hai Wang

(Ph.D. 2020 → JD Finance)

Takeshi Onishi

(Ph.D. 2020 → TMC)

Hao Tang

(Ph.D. 2017 → post-doc at MIT → faculty U. Edinburgh)

John Wieting

(Ph.D. student 2015–2017 → CMU Ph.D. 2020 → Google)

Weiran Wang

(post-doc 2014–2017 → Google)

Herman Kamper

(post-doc 2017 → faculty at Stellenbosch University)

Taehwan Kim

(Ph.D. 2016 → post-doc at Caltech → UNIST)

Raman Arora

(post-doc 2011–2013 → faculty at Johns Hopkins University)

Bahador Nooraei

(MS 2015)

Visiting students, U. Chicago student collaborators alumni

Songcheng Cai,

Zhejiang U. (2023-2024)

Jason Peng,

U. Chicago (2020)

Tianyu Liu,

Peking University (2019)

Shuning Jin,

UMN/UMD (2019-20)

Yushi Hu,

U. Chicago (2019-20)

Yang Chen,

U. Chicago (2018)

Xiaoan Ding,

U. Chicago (2018-)

Jack Huang,

U. Chicago (2018)

Yuanzhe (Richard) Pang,

U. Chicago (2017-2018)

Jon Michaux,

U. Chicago (2017)

Kalpesh Krishna,

IIT Bombay (2017)

Deblin Bagchi,

Ohio State U. (2016)

Jon Cai,

U. Chicago (2016–2017)

Arjun Chandrasekaran,

Virginia Tech (2016)

Cha Chen,

U. Chicago (2016)

Zewei Chu,

U. Chicago (2016–2020)

Arnab Ghosh,

IIT Kanpur (2016)

Wanjia He,

U. Chicago (2016)

Dan Hendrycks,

U. Chicago (2016–2017)

Myungin Kim,

U. Chicago (2016)

Aravind Srinivas Lakshminarayanan,

IIT Madras (2016)

Dian Li,

U. Chicago (2016)

Raci Lynch,

Stanford U. (2016)

Yixin Nie,

U. Chicago (2016)

Manasvi Sagarkar,

U. Chicago (2016–2018)

Aynaz Taheri,

UIC (2016)

Trang Tran,

U. Washington (2016)

Hang Chu,

Cornell (2015)

Rasool Fakoor,

U. Texas Arlington (2015)

Xiang Li,

U. Chicago (2015)

Zuyao Li,

USC (2015)

Hongyuan Mei,

U. Chicago (2015)

Naohiro Tawara,

Waseda U. (2015)

Zhengyang Wu,

Georgia Tech. (2015)

Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha,

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2015)

Herman Kamper,

U. Edinburgh (2015)

Dhivya Eswaran,

IIT Madras (2015)

Ang Lu,

Tsinghua University (2014)

Mengyin Lu,

U. Chicago (2013–2015)

John Wieting,

UIUC (2014, 2015)

Jing Wang,

UIC (2014)

Katie Henry,

U. Chicago (2012–2013)

Hadas Benisty,

Technion (2012)

Soham De,

Jadavpur University (2012)

Victoria Evelkin,

Technion (2012)

Arild Brandrud Næss,

NTNU (2010–2012)

Sujeeth Bharadwaj,

UIUC (2011)

Matt Faytak,

U. Chicago (2010–2011)

Katie Mock,

U. Chicago (2010–2011)

Anna Margolis,

U. Washington (2009–2011)

Mindi Porebsky,

UIUC (2011)

Sam Bowman,

U. Chicago (2010)

Preethi Jyothi,

Ohio State U. (2010)

Gabrielle Knight,

Northwestern U. (2010)

Rohit Prabhavalkar,

Ohio State U. (2010)

Mark Stoehr,

U. Chicago (2009–2010)