Chitta Baral
Professor
chitta@asu.edu

Kazuaki Kashihara
PhD Student
kkashiha@asu.edu

Yiran Luo
PhD Student
yluo97@asu.edu

Shailaja Sampat
PhD Student
ssampa17@asu.edu

Pratyay Banerjee
PhD Student
pbanerj6@asu.edu

Natural Language Understanding,
Question Answering,
Reasoning over Text

Tejas Gokhale
PhD Student
tgokhale@asu.edu

Computer Vision,
Visual Reasoning,
Vision + Language

Kuntal Pal
PhD Student
kkpal@asu.edu

Swaroop Mishra
PhD Student
srmishr1@asu.edu

Neeraj Varshney
PhD Student
nvarshn2@asu.edu

Natural Language Understanding,
Question Answering,
Reasoning

Man Luo
PhD Student
mluo26@asu.edu

Question Answering
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning

Hong Guan
PhD Student
hguan6@asu.edu

Learning and Planning,
Natural Language Understanding

Ming Shen
PhD Student
mshen16@asu.edu




Alumni

PhD alumni

Arindam Mitra, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Learning for Non-Extractive Reading Comprehension, Sept 2019 (Currently: Microsoft Research)
Arpit Sharma, Towards Understanding Natural Language: Semantic Parsing, Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition, Reasoning Framework and Applications, July 2019 (Currently: Walmart Labs)
Somak Aditya, Knowledge and Reasoning for Image Understanding, June 2018 (Currently: Adobe Research, Bangalore)
Gregory Gelfond, Representing and Reasoning about Dynamic Multi-Agent Domains: An Action Language Approach, May 2018 (Currently: Research Fellow, University of Nebraska Omaha)
Nguyen Vo, Answering Deep Queries Specified in Natural Language with Respect to a Frame Based Knowledge Base and Developing Related Natural Language Understanding Components, Aug 2015 (Currently: Google AI)
Saadat Anwar, Representing, Reasoning and Answering Questions about Biological Pathways Various Applications, May 2014 (Currently: Lead Scientific Software Engineer, ASU School Of Earth and Space Exploration)
Bob Leaman, Advancing Biomedical Named Entity Recognition with Multivariate Feature Selection and Semantically Motivated Features, Dec 2012 (Currently: Research Fellow, National Library of Medicine)
Jicheng Zhao, Representing and Reasoning about Goals and Policies of Agents, 2011 (Currently: Baidu)
Luis Ng Tari, A framework for the integration of information retrieval and parse tree database with applications in the genomics domain, Aug 2009 (Currently: NLP Research Scientist, UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health)
Xin Zhang, thesis title, July 2008 (Currently: Google)
Nam Tran, thesis title, Oct 2006 (Next: GE Research)
Le-Chi Tuan, thesis title, Dec 2004
Raul Trejo, Interval computation methods and probabilistic methods for planning and plan checking under uncertainty and incomplete information, 2001
Graciela Gonzalez, A Display Specification Language for Multimedia Databases, 2000 (Currently: Associate Professor of Informatics, University of Pennsylvania)
Tran Cao San, Reasoning about sensing actions and its application to diagnostic problem solving, 2000 (Currently: Professor, New Mexico State University)

MS alumni

Ishan Shrivastava July 2019 (Next: GumGum Inc., Los Angeles)
Vaishnavi Batni July 2019 (Next: Facebook)
Aurgho Bhattacharjee July 2019 (Next: Amazon, Seattle)
Ashok Prakash October 2019 (Next: Oracle)
Shubham Gondane July 2019
Sanjay Narayana April 2020
Sam Rawal April 2020 (Next: University of Illinois College of Medicine)

UG alumni

Sam Rawal 2018 (Next: MS at ASU)