Muhammad Abdo
Graduate Student
- mabdo@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Natural Language Inference; Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models; Arabic NLP; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning
Graduate students
Nicholas Obeng Agyekum
Graduate Student
- nagyekum@iu.edu
Research Interests:
African Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Phonetics, and Phonology
Kaosarat Aina
Graduate Student
- kbaina@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Experimental Phonetics and Phonology. Native and Second Language Tone Acquisition and Lexical Processing. Yoruba Loanword Prosody. Language Documentation. Corpus creation for Human Language Technology like Automatic Speech Recognition, Tone recognition, Computer Assisted Pronunciation Learning in Yoruba and Low-Resource Languages
Meesum Alam
Graduate Student
- meealam@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Intersection of computational linguistics, language documentation, and AI ethics, with a focus on developing speech and NLP technologies for low-resource and endangered languages in South Asia, building community-owned datasets, and advancing linguistic justice, data sovereignty, and Indigenous AI through open, ethical, and sustainable digital infrastructures.
Abdullah Alharthi
Graduate Student
- alhartha@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; and Syntax
Phakphum Artkaew
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Low-resource natural language processing, computational language resources, commonsense reasoning
Sadia Ashraf
Graduate Student
- saashr@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Hate Speech Detection, Under-resourced languages, South-Asian Languages
Zhanerke Assetova
Graduate Student
- zhasset@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Semantics and Syntax
Fatima Beldaha
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
experimental phonology, phonetics, theoretical phonology, speech production
Jose P. Benavides
Graduate Student
- josbenav@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Syntax; Semantics; Syntax-semantics Interface; Morphosyntax; Fieldwork; Indigenous Languages; Computational Linguistics; Romance Linguistics
Amanda Bohnert
Graduate Student
- abohnert@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Articulatory & acoustic phonetics, Chin languages, language documentation, fieldwork
Anthony Brandy
Graduate Student
- ajbrandy@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Language documentation, syntax, semantics, and instructed second language acquisition
Margaret Carpenter
Graduate Student
- marcarp@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Language documentation and revitalization, sociolinguistics, Haitian Creole, Inga Kichwa, Southern dialectology
Dylan Charter
Graduate Student
- dcharter@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Language ideologies, in particular in the education system. Language revitalization. Languages of Siberia & Central Asia.
Yue Chen
Graduate Student
- yc59@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Processing
Elaine Dalida
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics and philology, syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, Turkic linguistics
Andrew S. Davis
Graduate Student
- ad7@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) for Public Health and Health Communication Research; Drug and Substance-Use Discourse Analysis on Social Media; Adverse Drug Event (ADE) Detection and Normalization; Sentiment and Emotion Analysis in Addiction & Recovery Communities; Knowledge Graph and GraphRAG Architectures for Pharmacovigilance; Geo-locational Modeling of Substance Use Discourse; Corpus Linguistics of Psychedelic Narratives (Erowid Psilocybin Corpus); Low-Resource Language Processing (Nahuatl Florentine Codex).
James Decatur
Graduate Student
- jdecatur@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Computational Linguistics; Marginalized Languages; Dependency Parsing
Story Ellis
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Second Language Acquisition, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Language Documentation, East Asian Languages, Language Attrition
Alexandra Fort
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Language Documentation, NLP, Language Technology, Low-Resource Languages
Benjamin Glidden
Graduate Student
- bglidden@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Speech Enhancement; Speech Separation; Speech Processing in embedded systems; Speaker Recognition
Armando Hull
Graduate Student
- adhull@iu.edu
Research Interests:
speech processing, natural language processing
Nils Hjortnaes
Graduate Student
- nhjortn@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Historical Linguistics, Language Modeling, Speech Recognition, Corpus Linguistics
Shusuke Hashimoto
Graduate Student
- shuhashi@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Grammatical Error Correction (GEC), Computational Psycholinguistics, Interpretability in NLP, Multilingual NLP
Joel Jenkins
Graduate Student
- joeljenk@iu.edu
Research Interests:
African American Language, Black Queer English; Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics & Political Discourse
Hale Karkoutli
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Second Language Acquisition and The Phonology of Turkic Languages
Snigdha Khanna
Graduate Student
- snkhanna@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Cognitive Linguistics, NLP, Language Semantics, Concepts, Discourse analysis, Language Disorder.
Soyoung Kim
Graduate Student
- sk135@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Syntax; Semantics; Syntax-Semantics Interface; TAM; Coordination; East Asian Linguistics
Kouadio Timothee Kouame
Graduate Student
- kkouame@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Syntax, semantics, and their interface; morphosyntax, fieldwork, language documentation, and cognitive science.
Anastasia Kuznetsova
Graduate Student
- anakuzne@iu.edu
Research interests:
Model complexity reduction and data efficiency for speech and audio, low-resource ASR, foundation models, representation learning.
Joseph Larson
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Dependency Parsing, Machine-Generated Text Detection, Semantic Change, Part of Speech Tagging
Zackary Leech
Graduate Student
- zleech@iu.edu
Research Interests:
AI Engineering; Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics; Low-resource Languages; Pidgins and Creoles; Syntax; Phonetics and Phonology; Tok Pisin, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole
Qin Li
Graduate Student
- qli3@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Syntax and Semantics
Griffin Lowry
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Articulation
Rhianna Mauro
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Language Documentation
Daniel Mitropoulos
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Syntax, Historical Syntax, Comparative Germanic, Historical Linguistics
Elias Naske
Graduate Student
- enaske@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Speech Processing (Speech Enhancement, Audio Codecs), NLP, Machine Learning (Architectures, Model Compression, Knowledge Distillation), Embedded Systems, LLMs, and Audio Language Models
Wooji Park
Graduate Student
- wjinpark@iu.edu
Research Interests:
sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics; phonetics; bilingualism
Lauren Perkins
Graduate Student
- laurbutl@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Morphosyntax, language documentation, pragmatics, Tibeto-Burman languages
Grayson Pettit
Graduate Student
- grpettit@indiana.edu
Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, Language Revitalization & Archiving, Speech Accommodation, Estonian
Robert Pugh
Graduate Student
- pughrob@iu.edu
Research Interests:
NLP for similar and related languages, low-resource NLP, computational morphosyntax, Nahuatl, languages of the Americas, language documentation and revitalization, speech technology
Arielle Roadman
Graduate Student
- alebouli@iu.edu
Research Interests:
language contact, French and English syntax, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics
Amalia Robinson
Graduate Student
- amlrobin@iu.edu
Research Interests:
sociolinguistics; multilingualism; phonetics; language documentation & revitalization; linguistic anthropology
Wenchen Shi
Graduate Student
Research Interests:Experimental phonology, sociophonetics, speech processing, language documentation, and multilingualism.
Joshua D. Sims
Graduate Student
- jodasims@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Phonology, Vowel Harmony, Phonetics, Formant Analysis, 3D Ultrasound
Lian Siyi
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
speech information processing; phonetics; psycholinguistics
Shane Sparks
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Natural language processing, semantics, reasoning models, ontologies, and formal logic
Kenneth Steimel
Graduate Student
- ksteimel@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Computational linguistics, natural language processing, parsing, deep learning, natural language inference, large language models, low-resource languages, Bantu languages.
Ling Sun
Graduate Student
- ls44@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Cognitive Semantics; Degree Semantics
Daniel Glen Swanson
Graduate Student
- dangswan@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Machine Translation; Computational Morphology; Hebrew
Beck Tabor
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Computational linguistics, language revitalization, Louisiana French, Louisiana Creole
Yuka Tashiro
Graduate Student
- yutash@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Speech perception; Perceptual organization (of general cognition); Laboratory phonology (East Asian languages)
Shane Taylor
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, Laboratory Phonology, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Acquisition, Language Ideology
Grace Teuscher
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Computational linguistics, syntax, and minority dialects of English
Jarod Warner
Graduate Student
- jacwarne@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Phonology; Phonetics; Sociolinguistics; Creole studies; Belizean Kriol
Dong Xiao
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
social phonetics, acoustic phonetics, language variation, second language acquisition
Charlotte Zhu
Graduate Student
- zz79@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Speech LLMs, Conversational AI (Emotional Intelligence & Full-Duplex Interaction), AI Agent
Grayson Ziegler
Graduate Student
- grzieg@iu.edu
Research Interests:
Phonetics, Phonology, Language Documentation, Ethics in Linguistic Fieldwork, Tibeto-Burman languages
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