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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.

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

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.

Abdolla Hegazy

Joined: Fall 2024
Email: hegazyab@msu.edu
Research Interests: low-resource language modeling, data-efficient language acquisition, NLP

Alumni & Past Members

Ph.D. graduates:

  • Yue Zhang (Joslin), PhD Graduate (2020-2025). Post-doctoral researcher at North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • Hossein Faghihi, PhD Graduate (2019-2024). ML Engineer at Google.
  • Guangyue Xu, PhD Graduate (2019-2024). Senior Data Scientist at Target.
  • Roshanak Mirzaee, PhD Graduate (2019-2024). Applied Scientist at Qualtrics.
  • Chen Zheng, PhD Graduate (2018-2022). Senior Research Scientist at Byte Dance.

Post-doctoral researchers:

  • Elham Barezi, Postdoc (2022-2024). Research associate at University of Purdue.
  • Quan Guo, Postdoc (Feb 2019 - Nov 2020). Associate Professor at Sichuan University.
  • Elaheh Raisi, Postdoc (Nov 2020 - May 2021). Applied Researcher, eBay.

Masters, Undergraduates, Visiting scholars:

  • Sushanta K. Pani, Master student (Aug 2019 - Sep 2021)
  • Luan Thanh Nguyen, Visiting Scholar (Aug 2024 - Nov 2024)
  • Drew Hayward, Research assistant (Aug 2019 - May 2021)
  • Ailin Patimar, Undergraduate (2023-2024)
  • Trevor Stevens, Undergraduate (2024-2025)
  • Divyalakshmi Varadha Rajan Prem Sudha, undergraduate professorial assistant (Fall 2023)
  • Joseph Romain, undergraduate research intern (Aug 2022 - Dec 2022)
  • Tim Moran, undergraduate professorial assistant (Fall 2020 - Spring 2022)
  • Lemuel Agur Mensah, undergraduate professorial assistant (2022 - 2023)
  • Tolu Oshin as undergraduate professorial assistant (2022 - 2023)