Sort byPh.D. students who started in 2015:

Zane Cochran Zane Cochran Lara Martin Lara Martin Chris Purdy Chris Purdy Ari Schlesinger Ari Schlesinger Amber Solomon Amber Solomon Ian Stewart Ian Stewart Rui Zhou Rui Zhou

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Zane Cochran

Zane Cochran

Graduated 2020

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Lara Martin

Lara Martin

Started 2015

Advisor Dr. Mark Riedl

Lab Entertainment Intelligence

Area Cognitive Science

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Research Interests Dialog systems, computational creativity, interactive narrative

Christopher “Chris” Purdy

Christopher “Chris” Purdy

Started 2015

Advisor Dr. Mark Riedl

Lab Entertainment Intelligence

Area Artificial Intelligence

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Research Interests AI, creativity, and storytelling

Ari Schlesinger

Ari Schlesinger

Started 2015

Advisor Dr. Annie Antón

Area Social Computing

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Research Interests Justice & Design

Amber Solomon

Amber Solomon

Started 2015

Advisor Dr. Mark Guzdial

Lab CSLearning4U

Area Learning Sciences & Technology

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Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart

Graduated 2020

Advisor Dr. Jacob Eisenstein

Lab Computational Linguistics

Area Social Computing

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Research Interests Computational social science, natural language processing

Rui Zhou

Rui Zhou

Graduated 2020

Advisor Dr. Betsy DiSalvo

Lab Culture and Technology

Area Human-Computer Interaction

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Research Interests I'm interested in the relationship between culture and technology. Specifically, I focus on how people communicate through social media/instant messengers, how they appropriate these technologies, and how such technologies affect these people.