People

Casey Kennington, PhD is the hairless leader / associate professor of the SLIM group. He completed his PhD at Bielefeld University, his masters’ in the EM-LCT program at Saarland University and Nancy 2 University (now Lorraine University) and his bachelor’s in computer science at Brigham Young University. He likes running, cycling, and language.

Clayton Fields – PhD candidate working on small and multimodal language modeling
Catherine Henry – Master’s student working on intrinsic motivation and symbol grounding
Ryan Pacheco – Master’s student working on retico
Drew McMains – Undergraduate RA working on emotion data collection, BabyLM Project

Alumni

Alumni of the SLIM Group have gone on to work for Google, Microsoft, Paylocity, HPE, Micron, Kount, Bastian Solutions, Syntel, as well as graduate programs like University of Michigan PhD in CS, University of Avignon (France), Georgia Tech, and the EM-LCT Master’s program.

Josue Torres-Foncesca – Undergraduate RA who worked on emotion data collection and interactive dialogue with robots, Goldwater Scholar; Top-10 Scholar.
Ryan Whetten – Master’s student who worked on speech recognition evaluation; went onto a PhD in Avignon, France
Osama Natouf – Master’s student working on multimodal language models and incremental dialogue management
Enoch Levandovsky – Master’s student who worked on incremental RASA
Daniel Villarmero – Undergraduate RA who worked on Augi
Flo Ciaglia – Undergraduate RA who is worked on “multiplex” networks
Yousra Hesham – Master’s student who worked on multi modal language models
Jared Rackley – Undergraduate RA who worked on Augi
McKenzie Steenson – Undergraduate RA who worked on Spanish lyrics data and the SemDial anthology
Mir Tahsin Imtiaz – Master’s student who worked on psi framework, Retico, and IU network infrastructure
David McNeill – Master’s student who worked on emotion recognition on the Cozmo robot.
Stacy Black – Master’s student who worked on unifying grounded and distributional semantics.
Daniele Moro – Undergraduate RA who worked worked on many things, but mostly focused on semantics. Top-10 Scholar. Goldwater Scholar; Top 10 Scholar.
Lucas Marchand  – Undergraduate RA who worked on the psi framework for SLIM multimodal lab.
Carson Smith – Undergraduate RA who worked with Azure
Alex Mussell  – Undergraduate RA who worked on the psi framework for SLIM multi modal lab
Andrew Rafla – Master’s student who worked on incrementalizing the RASA NLU software toolkit
Kiran Thapa – Master’s student who worked on the street view/meetup project
Justin Garrard – Undergraduate RA who worked on the street view project
Dan Kondratyuk – Undergraduate RA who worked on the Augi project
Sarah Plane – Undergraduate RA who worked on Cozmo
Ariel Marvasti – Undergraduate RA who worked on Cozmo and topic modeling
Tyler Egan – Undergraduate RA who worked on our SLIM multimodal lab