Our work in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics 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's potential harms, benefits, and impacts on society. 

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

 Faculty

 Postdocs

• Trista Cao, iSchool

• Sanjana Gautam, iSchool

• Leonie Weissweiler, Linguistics

 STudents

Recent Alumni and former postdocs

• 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