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What I look for, how I advise, and how to decide between programs.
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First job: Assistant Professor, St. Edward's University
Thesis: Methods for the Generation and Evaluation of User-Centric Scientific Summarization
First job: Assistant Professor, George Washington University
First job: Amazon
Thesis: Towards Understanding Conflict & Transfer in Multi-Task Deep Learning
First job: Amazon
Thesis: Improving the Fairness in Language Models for Decision-Making
First job: Astrana Health
First job: Netflix
Thesis: Towards Robust Natural Language Processing to Promote Health Equity
First job: Boston University (Assistant Professor)
Thesis: Emergent Syntactic Behaviors and Mechanisms in Neural Language Models
First job: Curai Health
Thesis: Entity Linking in Low-Annotation Data Settings
First job: PhD Student, University of Maryland
First job: Bloomberg AI
Thesis: How do Multilingual Encoders Learn Cross-Lingual Representation?
First job: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University
Thesis: Balancing the Assumptions of Causal Inference and Natural Language Processing
First job: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego
First job: Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
First job: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy, University of Florida
First job: Assistant Professor, University of Memphis
Thesis: Metadata Matters: Personalizing Document Classifiers via Domain Adaptation
First job: National Research Council Canada
Thesis: Interactive and Adaptive Neural Machine Translation
First job: Google
First job: Bloomberg AI
Thesis: Learning Representations of Social Media Users
First job: Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California; Now: Assistant Professor UCLA
Thesis: Jointly Learning Representations for Low-resource Information Extraction
First job: Google
Thesis: Report Linking: Information Extraction for Building Topical Knowledge Bases
First job: IBM Watson
First job: Postdoc, Johns Hopkins; Now: Research Scientist, HLTCOE
Thesis: Generative Non-Markov Models for Information Extraction
First job: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
Thesis: Topic Modeling with Structured Priors for Text-Driven Science
First job: Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis: Graphical Models with Structured Factors, Neural Factors, and Approximation-Aware Training
First job: Amazon
Thesis: Practical and Efficient Incorporation of Syntactic Features into Statistical Language Models, ECE
First job: Google Research
Thesis: Learning Sub-word Units and Exploiting Contextual Information for Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition, ECE
The following is an (incomplete) list of undergraduates, masters, non-advisee PhDs, summer interns, etc.
Kuleen Sasse, Undergraduate, JHU 2023
Yahan Li, Masters, JHU 2023
Zike Hu, Masters, JHU 2023
Vijay Murari Tiyyala, Masters, JHU 2023
Sungwon Kim, Undergraduate, JHU 2023
Hyun Joo Rosalyn Shin, Masters, JHU 2021
Abhinav Chinta, Masters, JHU 2021
Jingyu Zhang, Undergraduate, JHU 2021
Narayani Wagle, Undergraduate, JHU 2020
Elle Park, Undergraduate, JHU 2020
Justin Sech, Undergraduate, JHU 2020-2021
Xiao Liu, Masters, JHU, 2019
Rachel Dorn, Summer Intern, Summer 2019
Andriy Mulyar, Summer Intern, Summer 2019
Michelle Kaufman, JHU, K-award advisee, 2018
Alicia Nobles, PhD Student, UVA, 2017-2018
Theodore Caputi, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2017-2018
Ning Gao, PhD Student, iSchool, UMD, 2013-2018
Michelle Khazaryan, Masters, JHU SAIS, 2018
Christine Martin, Masters, JHU SAIS, 2018
Manya Wadhwa, Masters, JHU, 2017-2018
Vibhu Jawa, Masters, JHU, 2018
Praateek Mahajan, Masters, JHU, 2018
Yuchen Zhou, Masters, JHU, 2018
Yirui Wang, Masters, JHU, 2017
Hugh Han, Undergraduate, JHU, 2017
Denis Jered McInerney, Undergraduate, JHU, 2017
Cuiqing Li, Masters, JHU, 2017
Eric Leas, PhD Student, Public Health, UCSD, 2016-2017
Anietie Andy, PhD Student, Howard University, 2016-2017
Atul Nakhasi, Medical Student, JHU, 2012-2016
Ralph J Passarella, Medical Student, JHU, 2012-2016
Sarah G Bell, Medical Student, UMich, 2012-2016
Jay DeYoung, Undergraduate, JHU, 2013-2016
Animesh Koratana, High School Student, 2015
Michael Smith, Masters, JHU, 2015
Muriel Leung, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2015
Shiliang Wang, Masters, JHU, 2015
Renyuan Cheng, Masters, JHU, 2014
Roger Que, Masters, JHU, 2014
Yunqi Chen, Undergraduate, Bryn Mawr, 2014
Justin Snyder, Undergraduate, JHU, 2013
Braden Hancock, Undergraduate, BYU, 2013
Alex Lamb, Undergraduate, JHU, 2013
Stephen Mayhew, PhD Student, UIUC, 2013
Mahesh Joshi, PhD Student, CMU, 2012-2013
Delip Rao, PhD Student, JHU, 2009-2013
Hieu Tran, Undergraduate, JHU, 2012
Manaswi Gupta, Undergraduate, JHU, 2012
Leah Hanson, Undergraduate, JHU, 2011
Spence Green, PhD Student, Stanford, 2011
Adam Gerber, Masters, JHU, 2010
Danny Puller, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2008
Ian Cohen, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2008
Josh Magarick, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2007-2008
Neal Parikh, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2007-2008
Ari Gilder, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2007-2008
Kevin Lerman, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2007-2008
Tova Brooks, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2006
Josh Carroll, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2006
Lauren Paone, Undergraduate, UPenn, 2005
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