Students

• Xuerui Wang (Ph.D. started 2004)
• Kedar Belare (Ph.D. started 2004)
• Pallika Kanani (Ph.D. started 2005)
• Greg Druck (Ph.D. started 2005)
• David Mimno (Ph.D., started 2005)
• Michael Wick (Ph.D., started 2006)
• Rachel Shorey (Ph.D., started 2007)
• Karl Schultz (Ph.D., started 2007)
• Gaurav Chandalia (Ph.D., started 2007)
• Limin Yao (Ph.D., started 2008)
• Jason Naradowsky (Ph.D., started 2008)

Post-docs

• Hanna Wallach, (Ph.D. from Cambridge University with David MacKay)
• Khashayar Rohanemanesh (First Postdoc in robotics at MIT)
• YOU? (opening now available)

Staff

• Adam Saunders, (Associate Software Engineer)

Former Students, Postdocs and Staff

• Ron Bekkerman, (former student, changed to James Allan, PhD 2007, now at Google)
• Alex Dingle (MS 2005, now at Google)
• Mike Mammarella (MS 2004, now in PhD program at UCLA)
• Ben Wellner (MS 2005, now at MITRE)
• Gary Huang, (MS 2006, now at Sandia National Lab)
• Andrew Tolopko , (Associate Software Engineer 2005-2006, now at Harvard)
• Andres Corrada-Emmanuel, (was Senior Research Fellow, now teaching Physics at UMass)
• Fuchun Peng, (Postdoc 2004 after Ph.D. with Dale Schuurmans, went to BBN, now at Yahoo Research)
• Nadia Ghamrawi, (former student, MS 2004, now at SRI)
• Gideon Mann, (was Postdoc, now Research Scientist at Google NYC)
• Chris Pal, (was Research Scientist, now Assistant Professor at University of Rochester)
• Rob Hall (MS started 2006, now PhD student at CMU)
• Wei Li, (Ph.D. started 2000, finished 2007, now Research Scientist at Yahoo!)
• Charles Sutton, (Ph.D. started 2000, finished 2007, now postdoc with Michael Jordan at Berkeley)
• Aron Culotta, (Ph.D. started 2002, finished 2008, now Assistant Professor at Southeastern Louisiana University---home of the 4th place winners of the 1st DARPA Grand Challenge)

Former Students, informally co-advised at CMU

• Kamal Nigam, (co-advised with Tom Mitchell, now at Intelliseek)
• Doug Baker, (co-advised with Scott Fahlman, now at Eizel and Nokia)

Other students, synthesis projects

• Vanessa Murdock, (with Bruce Croft, question answering)
• Hema Raghavan, (with James Allan, entity models)
• Jerod Weinman, (with Al Hansen, computer vision)
• Yu Gu, (with Don Towsley, networking)
• Don Metzler (with Bruce Croft, provinence in document collections)
• Michael Hay (with David Jensen, integration of data mining and extraction)

Other students, PhD committees

• Tim Beechey, (UMass Linguistics)
• Kathryn Flack, (adviser John McCarthy, UMass Linguistics)
• Andrew Schein , (adviser, Lyle Ungar, UPenn, graduated 2005, now on Wall Street)
• Xiaoyang Li , (adviser, Bruce Croft, UMass)
• Andy Arnt, (adviser, Shlomo Zilberstein, UMass, graduated 2005, now at Google)
• David Stracuzzi, (adviser, Paul Utgoff, UMass, now Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University)
• Razvan Bunescu, (adviser, Ray Mooney, UT Austin)
• Nicholas Matsakis, (adviser, David Karger, MIT)
• Jen Neville, (adviser, David Jensen, UMass, graduated 2006, now Assistant Professor at Purdue University)

Other Collaborators

At UMass

• Bruce Croft
• James Allan
• R. Manmatha
• David Jensen
• David Kulp
• Erik Learned-Miller
• ...

Elsewhere

• Fernando Pereira, UPenn
• David Blei, Princeton
• Paul Viola, Microsoft Research
• Sam Roweis, University of Toronto
• Tom Minka, Microsoft Research
• John Lafferty, CMU
• Andrew Ng, Stanford
• Drew Bagnell, CMU
• Nick Roy, MIT
• William Cohen, CMU
• Dallan Quass, BYU
• David Cohn, Google
• Dayne Frietag, Fair Issac
• Lyle Ungar, UPenn
• Tom Mitchell, CMU
• Sebastian Thrun, Stanford
• Roni Rosenfeld, CMU
• Rosie Jones, Yahoo
• ...