Faculty

Julia Hockenmaier

Lab Director

Research Interest:

E-mail: juliahmr at illinois dot edu

Students

Prashant Jayannavar

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interest: Collaborative task solving

E-mail: paj3 at illinois dot edu

Rajarshi Haldar

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interest: Natural Language Generation and Evaluation

E-mail: rhaldar2 at illinois dot edu

Marc E. Canby

Ph.D. Candidate (Co-advised by Tandy Warnow)

Research Interest: Linguistics-grounded NLP, Mechanistic Interpretability

E-mail: marcec2 at illinois dot edu

Risham Sidhu

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interest: Environment-grounded NLP, Multimodality

E-mail: rsidhu3 at illinois dot edu

Ikhyun Cho

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interest: Enhancing interpretability of large language models

E-mail: ihcho2 at illinois dot edu

Kulbir Singh Ahluwalia

Ph.D. Candidate (Co-advised by Girish Chowdhary)

Research Interest: Natural language grounding, Field robotics, Robot learning

E-mail: ksa5 at illinois dot edu

Adam Davies

Ph.D. Candidate (Co-advised by Chengxiang Zhai)

Research Interest: Mechanistic Interpretability

E-mail: adavies4 at illinois dot edu

Siddarth Madala

Ph.D. Candidate

Research Interest: Embodied AI

E-mail: smadala2 at illinois dot edu

Katya Yegorova

Ph.D. Candidate (Co-advised by Mark Hasegawa-Johnson)

Research Interest: Natural Language and Speech Processing in low-resource scenarios; Mechanistic Interpretability.

E-mail: yay2 at illinois dot edu

Sewoong Lee

Ph.D. Student

Research Interest: Mechanistic Interpretability

E-mail: samuel27 at illinois dot edu

Jinu Lee

Ph.D. Student

Research Interest: Semantics of reasoning (Neuro-symbolic reasoning and reasoning evaluation)

E-mail: jinulee2 at illinois dot edu

Alumni

Ph.D.

Yonatan Bisk

Peter Young

Micah Hodosh

Alice Lai

Anjali Narayan-Chen

M.S.

Ryan Musa

Christopher Servantes

Mihika Dave

Sidhartha Satapathy

Sarah Schieferstein

Dhruv Agrawal

B.S.

Cyrus Rashtchian

Jiacheng (Gary) Liu

Paul Lambert