Lab Members
Faculty
Dilek Hakkani-Tür
IEEE Fellow, ISCA Fellow, Amazon Scholar, TACL co-editor-in-chief, SIGdial President
MS/PhD Bilkent Univ, BS METU
Past Affiliations: Amazon Alexa, Google Research, Microsoft Research, ICSI, AT&T Labs
Gokhan Tur
IEEE Fellow, Amazon Scholar
BS/MS/PhD Bilkent Univ
Past Affiliations: Amazon Alexa, Uber, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Apple, SRI, AT&T Labs
Postdocs
PhD Students
Emre Can Acikgoz
Past Affiliations: Amazon Alexa AI
Research Interests: Self-Evolving Agents, Test-Time Training
Ishika Agarwal
MS UIUC, BS Purdue
Research Interests: Reasoning, Reinforcement Learning, Active Learning
Hobbies: Guitar
Janvijay Singh
MS GaTech, BTech IIT Varanasi
Research Interests: Characterizing and Modeling the Design Attributes of Human-Like Reasoning in LLMs
Hobbies: Biking, Photography, Reading
Nimet Beyza Bozdag
BS University of Arizona
Past Affiliations: Microsoft
Research Interests: Conversational Agents and Persuasion, Multi-Agent Collaboration
Hobbies: Painting, Photography
Sagnik Mukherjee
BTech IIT Kanpur
Past Affiliations: Microsoft, Adobe
Research Interests: LLM Evaluation (evaluation of chain of thoughts), Multi Agent Collaboration with LLMs
Shuhaib Mehri
Past Affiliations: IBM Research, Amazon
Research Interests: User-Centric Interaction, Continual Learning, User Simulation
Pardis Sadat Zahraei
BS Sharif University of Technology
Research Interests: AI Safety and Alignment, Evaluation and Benchmarking of LLMs
Takyoung Kim
MS Korea Univ., BS Sungkyunkwan Univ.
Past Affiliations: Amazon
Research Interests: Embodied & Spoken Dialogue
Vardhan Dongre
MS UIUC, BTech NIT Bhopal
Past Affiliations: Adobe Research, Brunswick Corporation
Research Interests: Multimodal Agents, Embodied Conversational AI
