People

• Thamar Solorio

  Director

  

Thamar Solorio

Director

Research Interests

My research deals with the analysis of spontaneous language samples. I work with written language mostly, but some of my work also deals with transcriptions of spoken language. My main research projects can be categorized along these lines:

• Creative writing analysis (story understanding)
• Computational Linguistics for the analysis of Code-Switched data
• Detection of extremely negative text in social media
• Information extraction from social media
• Clinical NLP, the use of NLP in language assessment for a clinical purpose (diagnose, monitor conditions affecting language patterns)

• Siva Uday Sampreeth Chebolu

  Ph.D. Student

  
• Yigeng Zhang

  Ph.D. Student

  
• Elaheh Baharlouei

  Ph.D. Student

  

Siva Uday Sampreeth Chebolu

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests

I am interested in problems like Sentiment and Emotion Analysis

Yigeng Zhang

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests

My research interest is natural language processing (NLP). My current research focuses on movie ratings with textual scripts.

Elaheh Baharlouei

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests

My research interest is Multimodal NLP.

Visiting Professor

• Fabio Gonzalez -National University of Columbia, Bogotá – (Visited in Fall 2017)

Research Associate

• Adrían Pastor López-Monroy  – Now Research Associate at Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas
• Thoudam Doren Singh

PhD Students

• Prasha Shrestha – Applied Scientist, Amazon Alexa AI (Spring 2018)
  • Thesis: Authorship Attribution in Realistic Scenarios
• Suraj Maharjan –  Research Scientist, Capital One (Spring 2018)
  • Thesis: Stylistically Aware Representations of Books
• Sudipta Kar – Applied Scientist, Amazon Alexa AI (Spring 2020)
  • Thesis: Automatic Characterization of Stories
• Niloofar Safi Samghabadi – Senior Data Scientist, Expedia Group (Spring 2020)
  • Thesis: Automatic Detection of Nastiness and Early Signs of Cyberbullying Incidents on Social Media
• Gustavo Aguilar – Applied Scientist, Amazon Alexa AI (Fall 2020)
  • Thesis: Neural Sequence Labeling on Social Media Text
• Amirreza (Reza) Shirani – Machine Learning Scientist – Apple (Spring 2021)
  • Thesis: NLP-enabled Design Assistance For Visual Communication
• Mahsa Shafaei – Data Scientist – Microsoft (Fall 2021)
  • Thesis: Detecting Objectionable Content in Online Media
• Shuguang Chen
  • Thesis: Named Entity Recognition on Social Media

Masters Students

• Tamzid Alam
• Deepthi Mave
• Maksim Egorov
• Akshay Kulkarni – Now at Teradata (Spring 2018)

Undergraduates

• Cash DeLeon
• Kevin Portillo
• Aidaly Santamaria
• Soumia El Madani
• Dung (Christian) Nguyen
• Giai Tran
• Hieu Trinh
• Dwija Parikh
• Armando Morales

High School Student

• Tracy Wei

Software Engineering Research Group at UH