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PhD Advising:
PhD students are central to our research projects. All PhD students at ISI are fully supported through fellowships or research assistantships. They work closely with their advisors and are active in publishing new advances in the field. Here is a list of our current PhD students, their thesis topics, and their advisors:

Donovan Artz (Yolanda Gil)
Hal Daume: Text Summarization (Daniel Marcu)
Steve DeNeefe (Kevin Knight)
Emil Ettelaie: Speech-to-speech translation (Shri Narayanan, Kevin Knight)
Alexander Fraser: Use of Context in Statistical Machine Translation (Daniel Marcu)
Donghui Feng: Statistical Parsing of Sentences in Dialogues (Eduard Hovy)
Salim Khan (Craig Knoblock)
Soo-Min Kim: Analyzing Options in Text (Eduard Hovy)
Maxim Krivokon (Wei-Min Shen)
Namhee Kwon (Eduard Hovy)
Brent Lance: Gaze Dynamics for Animated Agents
Hyokyeong Lee: Detection of motivational state and providing interaction tactic (W. Lewis Johnson)
Shou-de Lin: Unsupervised Approaches for Machine Discovery (Hans Chalupsky)
Martin Michalowski Object Consolidation on the Web (Craig Knoblock)
Nicolaus Mote (W. Lewis Johnson)
Dragos Stefan Munteanu: Natural Language Processing (Daniel Marcu)
Tom Murray (Eduard Hovy)
Feng Pan: Semantic Web Ontologies(Jerry Hobbs)
Lei Qu: Inferring learner focus of attention (W. Lewis Johnson)
Deepak Ravichandran: Automated Question Answering (Eduard Hovy)
Das Sampath: Embodied Conversational Agents
Mei Si: Robot-Agent Person Teams (W. Lewis Johnson)
Radu Soricut: Discourse Parsing (Daniel Marcu)
Marc Spraragen: (Yolanda Gil, Jihie Kim)
Snehal Thakkar: Geospatial Information Integration (Craig Knoblock)
Jo-Anne Ting: (Wei-Min Shen)
Ratapoom Tuchinda: Mining Airline Fare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price (Craig Knoblock)
Ning Wang: Student monitoring and affective learner modeling (W. Lewis Johnson)
Liang Zhou: Text Summarization (Eduard Hovy)