Current Advisee

PhD students

Masters Students

  • Cecilia Yang (MS CS Student, Colunbia University)

Undergradute Students

  • Sofia Hirao (Barnard College)

Alumni

Postdocs

  • [2024-2026] Milad Alshomary , co-advised with Kathy McKeown at Columbia University)
  • [2018 -- 2020] Efsun Kayi (Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)
  • [2016 -- 2018] Elena Musi (Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Liverpool, UK)
  • [2014 -- 2016] Travis Riddle (Research Scientist at the National Institute of Health)

PhD students

  • [2021-2025] Sky Wang , CS PhD student (Columbia University) (co-advised with Zhou Yu): PhD thesis "Aligning Words with the Human Worlds"
  • [2020-2024] Tuhin Chakrabarty (CS PhD Student [Columbia University): PhD Thesis ``Knowledge-aware Models and Human-AI Collaboration Frameworks for Creativity Support " (Assistant Professor at Stony Brook)
  • [2016 -- 2023] Olivia Winn , CS PhD student (Columbia University): Phd Thesis: ``Seeing Red" or ``Tickled Pink"?: Investigating the Power of Language and Vision Models through Color, Emotion, and Metaphor''
  • [2017 -- 2022] Tariq Alhindi , CS PhD student (Columbia University): PhD Thesis Computational Models of Argument Structure and Quality for Understanding Misinformation (now Postdoc at MBZUAI)
  • [2018 -- 2021] Ramy Eskander , CS PhD student (Columbia University): PhD Thesis Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging for Low-Resource Scenarios (first position Senior Research Scientist at Twitter)
  • [2012 -- 2018] Debanjan Ghosh , PhD Student at SCI (Rutgers University): PhD Thesis An Empirical Study of Verbal Irony: Identification, Interpretation, and its Role in Turn-Taking Discourse (first position postdoc at MIT, then Research Scientist at ETS)

Masters Students

  • Prisha Samdarshi (MS Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University)
  • Raavi Gupta (MS Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University),
  • Nikhil Vari- malla (MS GRA, Columbia University)
  • Shreyas Kulkarni (MS GRA, CS Columbia University)
  • Mallika Subramanian (MS GRA, CS Columbia University)
  • Kanishk Singh (CS Columbia)
  • Gunkirat Kaur (CS Columbia)
  • Derek Pham (CS Columbia)
  • Sujay Khandagale (CS Columbia),
  • Chenghao Yang (Cs Columbia,
  • Yudong Zhang (CS Columbia
  • Vishal Anand (CS Columbia),
  • Shivali Goel
  • Zhuoran Liu (CS Columbia)
  • Mukund Yelahanka Raghuprasad (CS Columbia)
  • Ritvik Shrivastava (CS Columbia, 1 paper EACL)
  • Kilol Gupta (CS Columbia),
  • Tuhin Chakrabarty (CS Columbia, now PhD Student)
  • Sowmya Bhagavatula ( CS Columbia)
  • Aquila Khanam (CS Columbia),
  • Madhavan Kidambi (CS Columbia)
  • Gaurav Kharkaval} (CS Rutgers)

Undergraduate Students

  • Begum Gokem (Barnard College)
  • Sunny Fang (Barnard College)
  • Diya Nair (Barnard College)
  • Cecilia Yang (Barnard College)
  • Dina Blachman (Barnard College),
  • Sofia Hirao (Barnard College),
  • Yuchen Huang (Barnard College),
  • Lorreine Xu (Columbia University),
  • Yuxin Li (Columbia University),
  • Meng Fan Wang (Columbia University)
  • Elena Bai (Columbia University)
  • Pilar Maldonado (Columbia University)
  • Grace Li (Barnard College; winner of the Columbia CS Department ”Theodore R. Bashkow award”, now PhD student Univ Of Chicago),
  • Sunny Fang (Barnard College, now PhD student Columbia)
  • Oliver Li (Columbia, now PhD student Cornell)
  • Avantika Garg (Columbia)
  • Jacquie Zhang (Barnard College)
  • Arkadiy Saakyan (Columbia, now PhD student).
  • Francesca Callejas (Columbia)
  • Brennan McManus (Columbia)
  • Elizabeth Nichols (Barnard College)
  • Serina Chang (REU Columbia)
  • Alexander Fabbri (Columbia)
  • Yubo Han (Columbia)

High school Students

  • Aadit Trivedi

Smaranda Muresan

Smaranda Muresan
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Barnard College,Columbia University
email: smuresan --AT-- barnard.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Mailing Address:
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