Office Hours

Staff information

These are the usual staff members who will be at each session, along with their areas of expertise (which may be useful for finding project advice).
Abbreviations: QA = question answering, HCI = human computer interaction, LM = language modeling, RL = reinforcement learning.

Day Staff
Monday Chris
Most areas of NLP. Less good on GANs and RL.
Monday Matt
Semantic Parsing, QA, Formal Semantics, Discourse, Structure Prediction
Alexandre
Transformer-based models, Summarization
Amaury
Representation learning, generative models, LM
Hugh
Generative models, games
Tuesday Amita
Robust NLP (to adversaries or distribution shift), Representation learning, QA
Haoshen
QA, Representation learning, Information Retrieval
Kush
QA, Default Project
Arnaud
LM, generative models, RL
Wednesday Hang
Representation Learning, LM, QA, summarization, pragmatic reasoning
Nick
QA, Default Project
Sarah
Classification, Representation Learning, Image Captioning, Multitask Learning
Mi Yu
QA, Default Project
Thursday Peiyu
Generative models, text segmentation
John
Interpretability/analysis of NLP, representation learning, language modeling, multilinguality
Mandy
QA, Default Project
Cecilia
QA, Default Project
Dilara
Recommendations
Friday Rohan
Information Retrieval, QA
Mina
Program synthesis, HCI, effective human-computer communication, and human-computer co-creativity
Emma
Keyphrase extraction, Default Project
Vera
QA, Information Retrieval
Wednesday, Saturday (SCPD) Prerna
QA, Default Project
Xianzhe
QA, Default Project