People

Faculty

Graeme Hirst
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Computational linguistics and natural language processing, with applications in health and medicine, in the social sciences, and in the humantities.
Gerald Penn
Professor
Research Interests: Mathematical linguistics, spoken language processing.
Colin Raffel
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Scalable Deep Learning, Collaborative Learning, Large Language Models, Open-Source Software.
Frank Rudzicz
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Natural language processing, speech recognition, assistive technology, machine learning in healthcare, surgical safety.
Suzanne Stevenson
Professor
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, cognitive modeling of language learning, word meaning/semantics, pragmatics, multilingualism.
Yang Xu
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Semantic change, semantic typology, language and cognition, computational methods for linguistic and social sciences.

Post-docs & Visitors

Aditya Bhargava
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sean Robertson
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Graduate Students

Ian Berlot-Attwell
Ph.D. Student
Megan Cao
M.Sc. Student
Arvid Frydenlund
Ph.D. Student
Serena Jeblee
Ph.D. Student
Nikhil Kandpal
Ph.D. Student
Shuja Khalid
Ph.D. Student
Bai Li
Ph.D. Student
Brian Lester
Ph.D. Student
Haokun Liu
Ph.D. Student
Hillary Ngai
M.Sc. Student
Jingcheng (Frank) Niu
Ph.D. Student
Yoona Park
M.Sc. Student
Aida Ramezani
Ph.D. Student
Stefania Raimondo
M.Sc. Student
Raeid Saqur
Ph.D. Student
Ken Shi
M.Sc. Student
Derek Tam
Ph.D. Student
Julia Watson
M.Sc. Student
Katie Warburton
Ph.D. Student
John Xu
M.Sc. Student
Lei Yu
M.Sc. Student
Jinman Zhao
Ph.D. Student
Zixin (Nicole) Zhao
Ph.D. Student

Graduate Alumni

Kaira Bergstra (formerly Ol'ga Feiguina)
Julian Brooke
Alex Budanitsky
Akshay Budhkar
Mark Catt
Jackie C.K. Cheung
Michael Demko
Judith Dick
Rouzbeh Farahmand
Vanessa Wei Feng
Dave Fernig
Timothy Fowler
Ulrich Germann
Angela Glover
Jory Graham
Neil Graham
Stephen Green
Siavash Kazemian
Jane (Jianhua Li
Naishi Liu
Wesley May
Anthony McCallum
Kinfe Tadesse Mengistu
Abdel-Rahman Mohamed
Colin Morris
Jane Morris
Yun Niu
Amber O'Hearn
Chris Parisien
Nick Pendar
Linda Bauman Peto
Chloe Pou-Prom
Stephen Regoczei
Michael Reimer
Mark Ryan
Hani Safadi
David St-Onge
Toby Walker
Muuo Wambua
Coco Wang
Shunan Zhao