Graduation 2019

Six students from Emory NLP graduated:

Masters

• Gary Lai: MS in Computer Science
• Jose Coves: BS/MS in Computer Science and Mathematics
• Shen Gao: BS/MS in Computer Science and Mathematics

Bachelors

• Xinyi Jiang: BS in Computer Science
• Kate (Mengmei) Li: BS in Computer Science and Mathematics
• Jack (Zhengzhe) Yang: BS in Computer Science

Kate, Jack, Jinho, Xinyi, Shen.

Jose and Jinho.

Shen and Jinho.

Jack and Jinho.

Gary.

Paper at IJCAI 2019

A paper written by Bonggun Shin is accepted to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).

• The Pupil Has Become the Master: Teacher-Student Model-Based Word Embedding Distillation with Ensemble Learning. Bonggun Shin, Hao Yang, and Jinho D. Choi. In Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'19, 2019.

Georgia CTSA Pilot Grant

Dr. Choi received a pilot grant of $40K from the Georiga Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (CTSA).

Awards 2019

Two students from Emory NLP received departmental awards:

• Jose Coves: Outstanding Student Award.
• Jack (Zhengzhe) Yang: Academic Excellence Award.

Jack, Jinh, Jose.

Dinner at Nakato

Emory NLP went out for a dinner at Nakato.

Changmao, Han, Liyan, Kate, Xinyi, Zilu, Jinho, Shen, Jack, Ruixiang, Albert, Yuchun, Sarah, James, Gary.

Honors 2019

Five students from Emory NLP received honors:

• Jose Coves: highest honor.
• Shen Gao: highest honor.
• Xinyi Jiang: highest honor.
• Kate (Mengmei) Li: honor.
• Jack (Zhengzhe) Yang: highest honor.

Jinho, Jose, Dr. James Lu

Dr. Michael Carr, Dr. Shun Yan Cheung, Shen, Jinho, Dr. Ken Mandelburg

Dr. Justin Burton, Jinho, Xinyi, Dr. Davide Fossati

Dr. Jed Brody, Dr. Shun Yan Cheung, Jinho, Jack.

Paper at BHI 2019

A paper written by Bonggun Shin is accepted to the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI).

• Multimodal Ensemble Approach to Incorporate Various Types of Clinical Notes for Predicting Readmission. Bonggun Shin, Julien Hogan, Adams Andrew B., Raymond J. Lynch, Rachel E. Patzer, and Jinho D. Choi. In Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI'19, 2019.

NACLO 2019

Emory NLP hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.  Ten students from several high schools in Georgia participated in this olympiad.

Interview with TWiML & AI

Dr. Choi had a radio interview about his NLP research with This Week in Machine Learning & AI.

AWS re:Invent 2018

Jinho.

Dr. Choi and his Ph.D. student, Gary Lai, were invited to give a chalk talk at the AWS re:Invent 2018 to present the cloud-based NLP research platform called ELIT (Evolution of Language and Information Technology).

Gary and Jinho.