Our work in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and AI for Language at UT Austin spans many departments and schools. We build systems that produce and understand natural language, try to understand how those systems work, study what they can tell us about human language and cognition, and think about NLP and AI's potential benefits, harms, and impacts. 

Check out what we're up to in the UT Austin Natural Language Learning Reading Group.

 Faculty

 Postdocs

• Anubrata Das (McCombs)

• Sanjana Gautam, iSchool

• Trista Cao, iSchool

• William Rudman, CosmicAI / Linguistics 

 STudents

Recent Alumni and former postdocs

• Puyuan Peng, Ph.D. 2025, CS

• Jiyang Zhang, Ph.D. 2025, ECE

• Soumyajit Gupta, Ph.D. 2025, CS

• Anubrata Das, Ph.D. 2025, iSchool

• Leonie Weissweiler, Postdoc 2024-2025, Linguistics

• Kanishka Misra, Postdoc 2023-2024, Linguistics

• Maaz Amjad, Postdoc 2022-2024, SSW 

• Venkat Govindarajan, Ph.D. 2024, Linguistics

• Xi Ye, Ph.D. 2024, CS

• Kaj Bostrom, Ph.D. 2024 CS

• Anisha Gunjal, M.S. 2024, CS

• Ritika Mangla, M.S. 2024, CS

• Smriti Singh, M.S. 2024, CS

• Shailee Jain, Ph.D. 2023, CS

• Anirudh Srinivasan, M.S., 2023, CS

• Yili Wang, M.S. 2023, CS

• Tanya Goyal, Ph.D. 2023, CS

• Jifan Chen, Ph.D. 2023, CS

• Yasumasa Onoe, Ph.D. 2023, CS

• Pengyu Nie, Ph.D. 2023, ECE

• Spencer Caplan, Postdoc 2023, Psychology

• Ryo Kamoi, M.S., 2023, CS

• Sooyong Lee, M.S., 2023, CS

• Venelin Kovatchev, Postdoc 2022, iSchool

• Diego Garcia-Olano, Ph.D. 2022, ECE

• Prasoon Goyal, Ph.D. 2022, CS

• Jialin Wu, Ph.D. 2022, CS

• Sheena Panthaplackel, Ph.D. 2022, CS

• Wei-Jen Ko, Ph.D. 2022, CS

• Jiacheng Xu, Ph.D. 2022, CS

• Ashwin Devaraj, M.S. 2022, CS

• Mustaf Rahman, Ph.D. 2021, iSchool

• Pengxiang Cheng, Ph.D. 2020, CS

• Elisa Ferracane, Ph.D. 2020, linguistics

• Su Wang, Ph.D. 2020, linguistics

• Laura Manor, M.A. 2020, linguistics

• Aishwarya Padmakumar, Ph.D. 2020, CS

• An T. Nguyen, Ph.D. 2020, CS

• Neha Srikanth, M.S. 2020, CS

• Ye Zhang, Ph.D. 2020, CS

• Nazneen Rajani, Ph.D. 2018, CS

• Jesse Thomason, Ph.D. 2018, CS