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Current Ph.D. Students

Graduated Student & Post-Docs

  • Raymond Fok Human-AI Mechanisms for Scholarly Knowledge Synthesis (2025) Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
  • Marissa Radensky Mixed-Initiative Methods for Verifiable, Controllable Creation in Scientific Research (2025) Apple (Seattle, WA)
  • Benjamin Charles Germain Lee Human-AI Interaction for Exploratory Search & Recommender Systems With Application to Cultural Heritage (2023) University of Washington Information School (Seattle, WA)
  • Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu  (2022) Interactive AI Model Debugging and Correction (Co-advised with Jeff Heer), Carnegie Mellon University
  • Lucy Wang Postdoc (2022) University of Washington Information School (Seattle, WA)
  • Mandar Joshi How to train your self-supervised NLP model: Investigating pre-training objectives, data, and scale (Co-advised with Luke Zettlemoyer) (2022) Google (Seattle, WA)
  • Andrew Head Postdoc (2022) University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Tom Hope Postdoc (2022) Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).
  • Gagan Bansal Three Maxims for Developing Human-Centered AI for Decision Making (2021) Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA).
  • Jonathan Bragg Self-Improving Crowdsourcing: Near-Effortless Design of Adaptive Distributed Work (Co-advised with Mausam) (2018) Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Seattle, WA).
  • Huan Sun Postdoc (2017) Associate Professor and Endowed College of Engineering Innovation Scholar, Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
  • Chris Lin The Intelligent Management of Crowd-Powered Machine Learning (Co-advised with Mausam) (2017) Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
  • Lydia Chilton Adaptive Crowd Algorithms for Open-Ended Problems (Co-advised with James Landay)(2016) Columbia University (NYC, NY)
  • Xiao Ling Entity Analysis with Weak Supervision: Typing, Linking, and Attribute Extraction (2015) Lattice (Palo Alto, CA)
  • Congle Zhang Exploiting Parallel News Streams for Event Extraction (2015) Facebook (Seattle, WA)
  • Andrey Kolobov (2013) Scalable Methods and Expressive Models for Planning Under Uncertainty (Co-advised with Mausam) Honorable Mention: 2014 ICAPS Dissertation Award. Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA)
  • Raphael Hoffmann (2012) Interactive Learning of Relation Extractors with Weak Supervision (Co-advised with Luke Zettlemoyer). Lattice (Palo Alto, CA).
  • Peng Dai (2011) Decision Making under Uncertainty: Scalability and Applications (Co-advised with Mausam). Honorable Mention: 2012 ICAPS Dissertation Award. Google (Mountain View, CA).
  • Stefan Schoenmackers (2011) Inference over the Web (Co-advised with Oren Etzioni), Decide.com (Seattle, WA).
  • Fei Wu (2010) Machine Reading: from Wikipedia to the Web, Google (Mountain View, CA).
  • Eytan Adar (2009) Temporal Informatics of the WWW, Associate Professor, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MIT).
  • Krzysztof Gajos (2008) Automatically Generating Personalized User Interfaces (Co-advised with Jacob Wobbrock). Associate Professor, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).
  • Mausam (2007) Stochastic Planning with Concurrent, Durative Actions ; Honorable Mention: 2008 ICAPS Dissertation Award. Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (New Delhi, India).
  • Zack Ives (2002) An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration (Co-advised with Alon Halevy) Professor, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA).
  • Corin Anderson (2002) A Machine Learning Approach to Web Personalization (Co-advised with Pedro Domingos) Research Staff, Google (Mountain View, CA).
  • Tessa Lau (2001) Programming by Demonstration using Version Space Algebra (Co-advised with Pedro Domingos) Research Staff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY).
  • Marc Friedman (1999) Representation and Optimization for Data Integration (Co-advised with Alon Halevy) Software Engineer, Microsoft Corporation.
  • Nick Kushmerick (1997) Wrapper Induction for Information ExtractionCollege Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Keith Golden (1997) Planning with Incomplete Information Research Staff, NASA Ames Research Labs.
  • Anthony Barrett (1997) Hierarchical Task Network Planning with an Expressive Action LanguageResearch Staff, JPL.
  • Franz Amador (1994) Self-Explanatory Simulation for an Electronic Encyclopedia Senior Software Architect, Equator Inc.
  • J. Scott Penberthy (1993) Planning with Continuous Change Technical Advisor to the Chairman, IBM.

Graduated M.S. Students

  • Kyle Xiao Contrastive Sentence-Level Data Augmentation for BioNLP Relation Extraction (2022)
  • Joyce Zhou, An Interactive UI to Support Sensemaking over Collections of Parallel Texts (2021) Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
  • Daniel Gorrie, Argumentation Improvement Techniques for the MicroTalk Workflow (2017) Pioneer Square Labs (Seattle, WA)
  • Ryan Drapeau, MicroTalk: Using Argumentation to Improve Crowdsourcing Accuracy (2016). Facebook, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
  • Angli Liu Crowd Supervision for Relation Extraction (2015)
  • Shih-Wen Huang Toward Automatic Bootstrapping of Online Communities Using Decision-Theoretic Techniques (2015)
  • Mitchell Koch, Type-Aware Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction with Linked Arguments (2014)
  • Stephen Jonany, Crowdsourcing the Creation of Expert-Annotated Named Entity Datasets (2014)
  • Jiun-Hung Chen, Naive-Bayes POMDPs (2005).
  • Karthik Gopalratnam, Extending Continuous-Time Bayesian Networks (2005). (Co-advised with Henry Kautz) Google, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
  • Tal Shaked, Named-Entity Extraction and Statistical Classification From the Web (2004). Google, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
  • Igor Tatarinov, Updating XML (2001). (Co-advised with Alon Halevy; subsequently received a Ph.D. with Alon Halevy) Amazon.com. (Seattle, WA)
  • Steve Wolfman, The LPSAT Engine (1998). Subsequently received a Ph.D. with Richard Anderson. Instructor, University of British Columbia.
  • Cody Kwok, Planning to Gather Information (1996). Subsequently received a Ph.D. with Dieter Fox. Google (Mountain View, CA).
  • Dave Christianson, Graphical Plan Debugging(1996). Senior Software Engineer, Farecast, Inc.
  • Ying Sun, Beyond Simple Observation: Planning to Diagnose(1992). Senior Software Engineer, Go2Net.com.
  • Adam Finkelstein, Pika, the Evolution of a Simulator (1992). Subsequently received a Ph.D. with David Salesin. Professor, Princeton University.
  • Dorothy Neville, Analyzing Mechanisms (1991).