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- Fall 2024... Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024. Congrats to Kanishka and his collaborator Kyle Mahowald at UT Austin!
- Fall 2024... Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2024. Congrats to Karen and collaborators William Chen, Wangyou Zhang, Yifan Peng, Xinjian Li, Jinchuan Tian, Jiatong Shi, Xuankai Chang, Soumi Maiti, and Shinji Watanabe at CMU!
- Fall 2024... Marcelo Beramendi Caballero, Jiamin (Jessica) Yang, and Tianyang (Sally) Xu join as new Ph.D. students. Welcome, Marcelo, Jessica, and Sally!
- Fall 2024... Lingyu Gao, Freda Shi, and Davis Yoshida have graduated. In addition, Freda's thesis was designated a Thesis of Distinction by TTIC. Congrats, all!
- Fall 2024... Kanishka Misra and Zhewei Sun join as new Research Assistant Professors. Welcome, Kanishka and Zhewei!
- Summer 2024... Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2024. Congrats to TTIC student Davis Yoshida and former TTIC faculty Kevin Gimpel and Kartik Goyal!
- Summer 2024... Jiawei (Joe) Zhou, Research Asssistant Professor 2023-24, has joined Stony Brook University as an Assistant Professor. Congrats, Joe!
- Summer 2024... Hongyuan Mei, Research Asssistant Professor 2021-24, has joined Google as a Senior Research Scientist. Congrats, Hongyuan!
- Fall 2023... Jungo Kasai and Jiawei (Joe) Zhou join as new Research Assistant Professors. Welcome, Jungo and Joe!
- Fall 2023... Best Student Paper Award at ASRU 2023. Congrats to TTIC students Chung-Ming Chien and Ju-Chieh Chou and U. Chicago Ph.D. student Mingjiamei Zhang!
- Fall 2023... TTIC submission to the Second WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT), led by Marcelo Sandoval-Castañeda, is the top system (see the results here). Congrats, Marcelo and all!
- Fall 2023... Ph.D. student Chung-Ming Chien wins Taiwan Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (GSSA). Congrats, Chung-Ming!
- Fall 2023... Test of Time Runner-Up Award at ICML 2023. Congrats to Karen Livescu, RAP alumnus Raman Arora, and collaborators Galen Andrew and Jeff Bilmes!
- Fall 2023... Shane Settle, Bowen Shi, and Qingming Tang have graduated. In addition, Bowen's thesis was designated a Thesis of Distinction by TTIC. Congrats, all!
- Fall 2023... Jungo Kasai and Jiawei (Joe) Zhou join as new Research Assistant Professors. Welcome, Jungo and Joe!
- Fall 2023... Kartik Goyal, Research Assistant Professor 2021-2023, is now Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Congrats, Kartik!
- Fall 2022... Ph.D. student Freda Shi wins Best Talk Award at the TTIC Student Workshop. Congrats, Freda!
- Fall 2022... TTIC submission to the WMT Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT) shared task, led by Bowen Shi, is among the top two systems (see the results here). Congrats, Bowen and all!
- Fall 2022... Chung-Ming Chien joins as a new Ph.D. student. Welcome, Chung-Ming!
- Fall 2022... Shubham Toshniwal and Mingda Chen have graduated and are now Research Scientists at Meta AI. Congrats, Mingda and Shubham!
- Fall 2021... Freda Shi has been awarded a Google PhD Fellowship in Natural Language Processing. Congrats, Freda!
- Fall 2021... Best Short Paper Award at the Fourth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora, and Coreference (CRAC) 2021. Congrats to Ph.D. student Shubham Toshniwal, co-first author Patrick Xia, and all of the co-authors!
- Fall 2021... Ju-Chieh Chou joins as a new Ph.D. student. Welcome, Ju-Chieh!
- Fall 2021... Kartik Goyal and Hongyuan Mei join as new Research Assistant Professors. Welcome, Hongyuan and Kartik!
- Summer 2021... Lifu Tu has graduated and is now a Research Scientist at Salesforce Research. Congrats, Lifu!
- Fall 2020... Mingda Chen has been awarded a Google PhD Fellowship in Natural Language Processing. Congrats, Mingda!
- Fall 2020... Ph.D. alumnus Hao Tang is now Lecturer at University of Edinburgh. Congrats, Hao!
- Fall 2020... Mrinmaya Sachan, Research Assistant Professor 2019-2020, is now Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich. Congrats, Mrinmaya!
- Fall 2020... Hai Wang and Takeshi Onishi have graduated. Congrats, Takeshi and Hai!
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- Fall 2019... Karl Stratos, Research Assistant Professor 2018-2020, is now Assistant Professor at Rutgers. Congrats, Karl!
- Fall 2019... The Chicago Fingerspelling in the Wild data sets are now available here.
- Fall 2019... Mrinmaya Sachan joins TTIC as a Research Assistant Professor
- Fall 2019... David Yunis joins as a new Ph.D. student in fall 2019
- Summer 2019... Paper on Visually Grounded Neural Syntax Acquisition is a Best Paper nominee at ACL 2019. Congrats to Ph.D. student Freda Shi, collaborator Jiayuan Mao, and Profs. Kevin Gimnpel and Karen Livescu!
- Fall 2018... Freda Shi joins as a new Ph.D. student in fall 2018
- Fall 2018... Allyson Ettinger and Sam Wiseman join TTIC as Research Assistant Professors
- Spring 2018... Ph.D. student Bowen Shi won a poster prize at the Midwest Machine Learning Symposium (MMLS). Congrats, Bowen!
- Fall 2017... Weiran Wang, post-doc 2014-2017, is now a Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon Alexa. Congrats, Weiran!
- Fall 2017... We welcome three new Ph.D. students in fall 2017: Lingyu Gao, Ankita Pasad, and Davis Yoshida
- Fall 2017... Hao Tang has successfully defended and submitted his Ph.D. thesis, and is now a post-doc at MIT. Congrats, Hao!
- Fall 2017... Liang Lu, Research Assistant Professor 2016-2017, is now at Microsoft. Congrats, Liang!
- Summer 2017... Two Best Paper Awards at ACL RepL4NLP 2017 workshop. Congrats to Ph.D. students Lifu Tu, Hai Wang, and Takeshi Onishi!
- Summer 2017... Herman Kamper, post-doc 2017, is now a lecturer at Stellenbosch University. Congrats, Herman!
- Summer 2017... Karl Stratos joins TTIC as a Research Assistant Professor
- The Who-did-What data set and leaderboard are now available here.
- Liang Lu joins TTIC as a Research Assistant Professor
- Taehwan Kim has successfully defended and submitted his Ph.D. thesis, and is now a post-doc at Caltech. Congrats, Taehwan!
- Mohit Bansal, Research Assistant Professor 2014-2016, is now an Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill. Congrats, Mohit!
- Paper on mapping unseen words wins Best Paper Award at ACL RepL4NLP workshop. Congrats to visiting student alumnus Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha!
- Congrats to Hao Tang and Taehwan Kim for Student Paper Award recognition at ICASSP 2016!