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, reading, and language.
Enoch Levandowsky – PhD student working on reinforcement learning in spoken dialogue with robots
Osama Natouf – PhD student working on reinforcement learning for dialogue management
Anh Bui – Master’s student working on agents for robot navigation
Catherine Henry – Master’s student working on intrinsic motivation and symbol grounding
Anna Manaseryan – Master’s student working on Retico and interactive robot learning
Porter Rigby – Undergraduate RA working on Retico
Adam Torek – Master’s student working on multimodal language models
Jason Do – Undergraduate RA working on Retico
Alex Smith – Undergraduate RA working on LLMs for Boise State
Tenneh Kanneh – Undergraduate RA helping with human subjects experiments
Alumni
Alumni of the SLIM Group have gone on to work for Google, Microsoft, Paylocity, HPE, Micron, Kount, Acertify, 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.
- Clayton Fields – PhD candidate who worked on small and multimodal language modeling
- Rista Baral – Master’s student who worked on the Robot Emotion project
- Michael Olacsi – Undergraduate RA who worked on Augi
- Marcus Thompson – Undergraduate RA who worked on LLMs for Boise State
- Kai Sorensen – Undergraduate RA who worked on language model access
- Beth Grenz – Undergraduate RA who worked on the Robot Emotion project
- Brooke Matthews – Undergraduate RA who worked on Retico
- Drew McMains – Undergraduate RA who worked on Retico and the robot emotion project
- Ryan Pacheco – Master’s student who worked on Retico
- Brandon Benoit – Undergraduate RA who worked on the Audi chatbot projects
- 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 Mahdy – 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