Prospective students

I am not taking on any additional students at this time, as I am on sabbatical.

Graduate assistants

Please do not email me asking for teaching assistant positions. Teaching assistant positions are assigned by the department; I have no role in that process.

Please do not email me asking for research assistant positions. When I have funding for student research, I allocate it to students who are already working in my lab, typically my doctoral students.

Current students

• Kadir Bulut Özler
• Sarah Stueve
• Xin Su
• Jiacheng Zhang
• Abhyuday Singh

Graduated students

• Sarah Hyunju Song, M.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2024
  Thesis: Metadata Enhancement Using Large Language Models: Improving the Quality of Aggregated Records in the iSamples Project
• Tugay Bilgis, B.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2024
  Thesis: Revisiting Medical Concept Normalization: a Comparative Analysis of Transformer-based Models and Search Engine Approaches
• Zeyu Zhang, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2023
  Thesis: Improving Geocoding by Incorporating Geographical Hierarchy and Attributes Into Transformer Networks
• Winston Zeng, B.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2023
  Thesis: Fine-tuning Transformer-based Natural Language Generation Algorithms for USDA Grains Reports for Farmers, Producers, and Small Businesses
• Yiyun Zhao, Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2022
  Thesis: How to probe linguistic knowledge and bias
• Amanda Bertsch, B.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2021
  Thesis: Detection of Puffery on the English Wikipedia
• Dongfang Xu, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2021
  Thesis: Neural Network Algorithms for Ontology Informed Information Extraction
• Jiacheng Zhang, M.S., Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2021
  Thesis: General Benefits of Mono-Lingual Pre-Training in Transformers
• Vikas Yadav, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2020
  Thesis: Evidence Retrieval for Explainable Question Answering
• Farig Sadeque, Ph.D., Information, University of Arizona, 2019
  Thesis: User behavior in social media: engagement, incivility, and depression
• John Osborne, Ph.D., Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2016
  Thesis: Machine Learning of Composite Concepts and the Alleviation of The Content Completeness Problem in Text Mention Normalization
• Upendra Sapkota, Ph.D., Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2015
  Thesis: Improving the performance of cross-domain authorship attribution