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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Patrick Hsu in the lab

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science

Image of Alexander Huth with brain images in background

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Statistics

language neuroscience, fMRI, semantic modeling, decoding/encoding models, computational neuroscience

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction

Amy Rose Deal portrait

Dept of Linguistics

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization

Isaac L. Bleaman

Isaac L. Bleaman

Dept of Linguistics

sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language maintenance, computational linguistics, syntax, phonetics, Yiddish, Jewish languages

photo of Lev Michael standing in the rainforest in central Peruvian Amazonia

Lev Michael

Dept of Linguistics

linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, anthropological linguistics, historical linguistics, language contact and areal typology, language documentation and description, lexicography, language revitalization

Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, Bayesian probabilistic models, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

School of Education

biostatistics, educational statistics, latent variable models, missing data methods, multilevel models, generalized linear latent and mixed models, hierarchical models, longitudinal data, Item response models, structural equation models

Steven Piantadosi

Steven Piantadosi

Dept of Psychology

language acquisition, language processing

Mairi McLaughlin

Mairi McLaughlin

Dept of Italian Studies

French linguistics, translation studies, language of the media, language contact, syntax, romance linguistics, History of the Romance Languages, Italian language, history of French, History of the Press, Speech Reporting, Metalinguistic texts

Dept of Linguistics

language variation and change, speech and language disorders

Photo of Alex Dimakis

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

generative models

Dept of Statistics

statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology

Placeholder image for Irina Paperno

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Russian language and literature, intellectual history

literacy, second language acquisition, writing, psycholinguistics, reading, French language, French linguistics, technology and education

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic structure, language production, aphasia and related language disorders, bilingualism, stuttering

Nicole Holliday sitting in front of book shelves

Nicole Holliday

Dept of Linguistics

sociolinguistics, phonetics, sociophonetics, issues of language and identity, language and media, African American English

Patricia Baquedano-López

Patricia Baquedano-López

School of Education

migration, diaspora, Indigenous language revitalization, decolonization, race and language, qualitative methods, ethnography

Sewon Min

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

natural language processing, machine learning

José Pablo Vázquez-Medina

José Pablo Vázquez-Medina

Dept of Integrative Biology

marine mammals, pre-clinical models of disease

William Collins

William Collins

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate change, uncertainty of extremes, climate modeling, coupled models of the climate system, global climate models, solar and terrestrial radiation

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

environmental economics, climate policy, integrated assessment models

Dept of Linguistics

language and thought, computational linguistics, semantic universals, lexical semantics