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Faculty

Dr. Parisa Kordjamshidi

Parisa Kordjamshidi is an Associate Professor of Computer science and Engineering at Michigan State University and affiliated as a research scientist with IHMC. She is a recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2019. She is the leading PI of a project funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to perform basic research to Advance AI. Parisa was in Rising Stars at MIT EECS, 2015.

Research Interest: Her main research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and declarative learning based programming (DeLBP).
Email: kordjams@msu.edu

PhD Students

Juan Castro-Garcia

Joined: Fall 2020
Email: castrog4@msu.edu
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Computational Models for Language Learning, Natural Language Acquisition.

Yue Zhang

Joined: Spring 2020
Email: zhan1624@msu.edu
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Vision and Language Navigation, Spatial Reasoning, Spatial Role Labeling

Darius Nafar

Joined: Spring 2021
Email: nafarali@msu.edu
Research Interests: Question Answering, Probabilistic Logical Reasoning, Natural Language Processing

Danial Kamali

Joined: Fall 2022
Email: kamalida@msu.edu
Research Interests: Computer Vision and Linguistic, Compositional Learning.

Tanawan Premsri

Joined: Fall 2023
Email: premsrit@msu.edu
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Question Answering, Information Extraction, Logic Integration.

Josue Kpodo, coadvised

Joined: Fall 2021
Email: kpodojos@msu.edu
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing Application in Agriculture

Tianyi Ma

Joined: Fall 2024
Email: matiany3@msu.edu
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Vision and Language

Visiting Scholars

Luan Thanh Nguyen

Joined: Fall 2024 (Visiting Scholar from UIT@VNU-HCM)
Email: luannt@uit.edu.vn
Research Interests: Machine Translation, Low-resource Language Processing, Speech and Natural Language Processing

Undergrads

Sania Sinha

Joined: Fall 2021
Email: sinhasa3@msu.edu
Research Interests: Spatial role labeling, Data visualization and Creative art using AI, compositional learning.

Alexander Wan

Joined: June 2021 (Summer Intern)
Email: alexwan@berkeley.edu
Research Interests: NLP, Language Models.

Trevor Stevens

Joined: Fall 2024
Email: steve899@msu.edu
Research Interests: The use of transformer architectures in the identification of enhancer sequences of DNA in the human genome

Past Members

  • Elham Barezi, Postdoc (2022-2024). Currently a research associate at University of Purdue.
  • Ailin Patimar, Undergrads (2023-2024)
  • Hossein Faghihi, PhD Graduate (2019-2024)
  • Guangyue Xu, PhD Graduate (2019-2024). Currently a Senior Data Scientist at Target.
  • Roshanak Mirzaee, PhD Graduate (2019-2024)
  • Chen Zheng, PhD Graduate (Sep 2018 - Dec 2022). Promoted to Senior Research Scientist at Byte Dance.
  • Sushanta K. Pani as Master student (Aug 2019 - Sep 2021)
  • Quan Guo as Postdoc (Feb 2019 - Nov 2020). Currently an associate professor at Sichuan University.
  • Elaheh Raisi as Postdoc (Nov 2020 - May 2021).
  • Drew Hayward as graduate research assistant (Aug 2019 - May 2021)
  • Divyalakshmi Varadha Rajan Prem Sudha as undergraduate professorial assistant (Fall 2023)
  • Joseph Romain as undergraduate research intern (Aug 2022 - Dec 2022)
  • Tim Moran as undergraduate professorial assistant (Fall 2020 - Spring 2022)
  • Lemuel Agur Mensah as undergraduate professorial assistant (2022 - 2023)
  • Tolu Oshin as undergraduate professorial assistant (2022 - 2023)