I am leading a research group ANANAS within UtahNLP. Please check out my contact / FAQ page before reaching out about joining us. On this webpage, you can also find my other mentees before I joined Utah and resources I often share while mentoring.
Utah MS/BS students interested in research opportunities, please ensure to review the contact/FAQ section before visiting my office without an appointment.
PhD Students
MS Researchers
- Neeraja Vasa
- Thomas Kauffman
- Neha Bhat
Undergraduate Researchers
- Lucas Pearce
Collaborators
Our group also works closely with external researchers, including Anubrata Das (Autodesk Research), Yoav Gur-Arieh and Mor Geva (Tel Aviv University), Martin Tutek (University of Zagreb), and Yonatan Belinkov (Technion). We also collaborate with faculty in other departments at Utah, such as Zac Imel (Counseling Psychology Program, Department of Educational Psychology).
Alumni
- Braden Fiedel (undergraduate and MS researcher)
- Xuyen Nguyen (MS researcher)
- Parker DeYoung (undergraduate researcher)
- Matthew Lee (undergraduate researcher)
- Nate Stringham (MS researcher)
- Casey Miller (undergraduate researcher)
- Kishan Thambu (undergraduate researcher)
- Michael Clemens (MS researcher) → New Jersey Institute of Technology PhD
- Purbid Bambroo (MS researcher) → Noetica
- Alex Gill (MS researcher) → University of Utah PhD
- Adwait Shinganwade (MS researcher)
- Yash Lele (MS researcher)
- Rishanth Rajendhran (MS researcher) → University of Maryland PhD
- Jacob Johnson (undergraduate and PhD researcher) → Weber State University MS
- Byron Liu (undergraduate researcher, co-mentored with Maitrey Mehta)
- Jordan Tan (undergraduate researcher)
- Dana EeJae Ahn (undergraduate researcher)
- Mugdha Abhyankar (MS researcher)
- Ryhor Pryslopski (MS researcher)
Before joining Utah
I had a pleasure to work with great undergraduate and PhD students during my time in AI2/UW. If you’re considering me as a potential advisor, I encourage you to reach out to them to hear about their experience working with me.
AI2 Predoctoral Researchers
- Alexis Ross (→ MIT PhD)
UW Underaguate Researchers
- Kaiser Sun (→ META/FAIR Residency → JHU PhD)
- Millicent Li (→ META/FAIR Residency → Northeastern PhD)
AI2 PhD Interns
- Abhilasha Ravichander (CMU)
- Shruti Palaskar (CMU)
- Mimansa Jaiswal (UMich)
- Alexander M. Hoyle (UMD)
- Sarah Wiegreffe (Georgia Tech)
- Zhanming Allan Jie (SUTD)
Resources
Finding a good research problem to work on [Click to expand!]
Every PhD is different by Maxwell Forbes
My Research Process: Understanding and Cultivating Research Taste by Neel Nanda
Research Taste Exercises by Christopher Olah
How to do influential research: a few lessons learned by Xiaodong He
Doing the work [Click to expand!]
Organizing and evaluating research ideas by Marco Tulio Ribeiro
Foundations: How to design experiments in NLU by Sam Bowman
Principles for Productive Group Meetings. You might wonder: what does this have to do with doing the work? I am sharing this blog because I strongly believe in the mindset presented there: “Hold yourself to a high standard of unserstanding” / “Adopt a frame of collaborative truth-seeking”. This mindset will affect how you do the work.
Working with your advisor [Click to expand!]
Should You Take My Advice? by Jimmy Lin
How to share progress with your mentors/collaborators? by Jia-Bin Huang
How to do research with my mentors effectively? by Jia-Bin Huang
Work-life balance [Click to expand!]
Stress in Research. Part I: The Tournament and the Axe by Charles Sutton
Stress in Research. Part II: Research Worth and Self-Worth by Charles Sutton
Stress in Research. Part III: The Trouble about Freedom by Charles Sutton
Stress in Research. Part IV: A Tsunami of Logistics by Charles Sutton
Collections [Click to expand!]
Good Citizen of CVPR has so many good talks covering a wide range of topics.
Awesome Tips is an extensive list of advices by Jia-Bin Huang.
“A repository of links with advice related to grad school applications, research, phd etc” by Shaily Bhatt.
Getting a Computer Science PhD in the USA by Shriram Krishnamurthi.