I have been rushed off my feet since last April and haven’t found time to update the website. Suffice to say that 2025 was a very successful year. Since the last update, we had papers at NAACL, ACL, and NeurIPS, among others. We had very successful demo days at DARPA...

Despite all the drama with funding at the federal level, I’m fortunate to have received not one, but two new research funding awards recently.

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Sheikh Mannan and former SIGNAL Lab undergraduate researcher Paige Hansen! Our paper, Combating Spatial Disorientation in a Dynamic Self-Stabilization Task Using AI Assistants, received a nomination for Best Paper at the International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction 2024. This paper was written in collaboration with the Department...

Congratulations to Dr. Shadi Manafi for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation!

Exciting news! Our paper, Propositional Extraction from Natural Speech in Small Group Collaborative Tasks, was awarded Best Student Paper at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining 2024. This paper addresses the problem of extracting the semantics expressed by spoken utterances in a multiparty context. In spoken dialogue, the same...