ACM Programming Contest 2018

Three members of Emory NLP, Jose Coves, Sonny (Chenxi) Xu, and Liyan Xu, participated in the 2018 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (Southeast USA Region) and won the 1st place for Division 2.

Liyan, Sonny, Jose, Jinho (coach).

Liyan, Jose, Sonny.

NAACL 2018

Tomasz Jurczyk and Kaixin Ma, presented a long paper at the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).

Tomasz, Jinho, Kaixin.

Graduation 2018

Nine students from Emory NLP graduated:

Doctorate

• Tomasz Jurczyk: PhD in Computer Science

Masters

• Kaixin Ma: BS/MS in Computer Science and Mathematics
• Jueun Kim: MS in Computer Science

Bachelor's

• Tyler Angert: BS in Computer Science
• Jayeol Chun: BS in Computer Science, BS in Physics
• Lindsay Hexter: BS in Computer Science, BA in Biology
• Hang Jiang: BA in Computer Science, BA in Linguistics
• Almas Myrzatay: BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, BA in Economics
• Ethan Zhou: BS in Computer Science and Mathematics

Jinho and Tomasz.

Hang, Jayeol, Jinho, Ethan.

Jinho and Lindsay.

Jueun, Kaixin, Almas.

Awards 2018

Two members of Emory NLP received departmental awards:

• Kaixin Ma: Trevor Evans Award.
• Jose Coves: Chair's Award.

Kaixin at the rightmost.

Jose at the 3rd from the left.

Honors 2018

Five students from Emory NLP received honors:

• Jayeol Chun: highest honor.
• Lindsay Hexter: highest honor.
• Hang Jiang: highest honor.
• Kaixin Ma: highest honor.
• Ethan Zhou: highest honor.

Dr. Mary Galinski, Jinho, Lindsay, Dr. Astrid Prinz, Davide Fossati

Bowling Night

Emory NLP went out for bowling at the Comet Pub & Lanes.

tan, Hang, Pawel, Tomasz, Sayyed, Lewie

Jueun, Jinho, Gary, Bonggun

Tomasz's Defense

Tomasz Jurczyk successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.

Dr. Eugene Agichtein , Jinho, Tomasz, Dr. Li Xiong, Dr. Marsal Gavalda

CoNLL 2017

Ethan Zhou presented a long paper at the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL).

Ethan.

ACL 2017

Kaixin Ma presented a student workshop paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Kaxin.

Spring 2017

Celebration of the end of Spring 2017.

Tomasz, Sayyed, Bonggun, Mike, Jinho.