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  Annual Awards 2026

  May 6, 2026

  Two students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Nayoung Choi: Excellence in Research Assistance - Henry Gao: Undergraduate Research Award

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  Undergraduate Honors 2026

  May 3, 2026

  Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Henry Gao - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Dat…

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  Innovation of the Year

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  Apr 2, 2026

  Tinker Tales, an interactive storytelling platform that teaches AI literacy to young learners through play, developed by Jinho Choi, Ikseon Choi, and Nayoung Choi, received the Innovation of the Year Award from the Emor…

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  Undergraduate Honors 2025

  May 8, 2025

  Three undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Andrew Chung - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Low Resource RAG: From Slide Data Processing to RAG Systems Tung Dinh - High Honor…

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  Annual Awards 2025

  Apr 26, 2025

  Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from Emory University: - Andrew Chung (Senior): Undergraduate Research Award, Emory Computer Science - Molly Han: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

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  Doctor of Philosophy 2024

  May 12, 2024

  Two students from Emory NLP earned PhD in Computer Science and Informatics: James Finch - Dissertation: Leveraging Diverse Data Generation for Domain-Adaptable Dialogue State Tracking Sarah Finch - Dissertation: Enrichi…

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  Undergraduate Honors 2024

  May 8, 2024

  Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Jacob Choi - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: When Large Language Models Meet Religious Text Ellie Paek - Highest Honor in Computer…

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  Annual Awards 2024

  Apr 16, 2024

  Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Ellie Paek: Academic Achievement Award - Peilin Wu: Undergraduate Research Award

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  Doctor of Philosophy 2023

  May 8, 2023

  Three students from Emory NLP earned PhDs in Computer Science and Informatics: Han He - Dissertation: Computational Structures as Neural Symbolic Representation Zihao Wang - Dissertation: Contextual Embedding Representa…

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  Undergraduate Honors 2023

  May 1, 2023

  Three undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Camila Calviño - Highest Honor in Quantitative Theory and Methods - Thesis: The Emora College Companion: A Socialbot for College Students Che…

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  Annual Awards 2023

  Apr 14, 2023

  Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Alexandru Rudi (Junior): Outstanding CS Student of the Year Award - Chen Gong (Senior): Undergraduate Rese…

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  Undergraduate Honors 2022

  May 8, 2022

  Six undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Angela Cao - Highest Honor in Linguistics - Thesis: An Analysis of Causal Language Constructions in Diverse Discourse Data Yingying Chen - High…

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  Annual Awards 2022

  May 4, 2022

  Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Sophy Huang (Senior): Trevor Evans Award - Daniil Huryn (Senior): Chair's Award - Mack Hutsell (Senior):…

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  Alexa Prize Finals 2021

  Jul 19, 2021

  The Emora team made it to the Finals of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4. It is the second consecutive year that the Emora team has made to the Finals of this competition. The Finals will take place on July 2…

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  Undergraduate Honors 2021

  May 8, 2021

  Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Lydia Feng - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: WISeN: Widely Interpretable Semantic Network for Richer Meaning Representation Chenxi…

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  Annual Awards 2021

  Apr 20, 2021

  Five undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Ran Xu (Senior): Chair's Award - Lydia Feng (Senior): Outstanding Student Award - Xinman Zhang (Senior):…

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  Professor of the Year 2020

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  Aug 7, 2020

  Dr. Jinho Choi received the "Professor of the Year" Award from the Computer Science department at Emory University. Here is a list of recipients for all awards this year: - Educator of the Year: Nosayba El-Sayed (Lectur…

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  Alexa Prize Winner 2020

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  Aug 4, 2020

  The Emora team won the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3. Our final average rating was 3.81 compared to 3.17 and 3.14 achieved by the 2nd and 3rd-place winners, Stanford University and Czech Technical University,…

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  Undergraduate Honors 2020

  May 8, 2020

  Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Haoqi Gu - High Honor in Applied Mathematics and Statistics - Thesis: Level-based Resume Classification on Nursing Job Positions Chloe Lee - H…

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  Annual Awards 2020

  Apr 30, 2020

  Two graduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Laney Graduate School: - Sarah Finch (PhD student): Chris Schoettle Graduate Research Award - Changmao Li (MS student): Chris Schoettle Gradua…

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  Undergraduate Honors 2019

  May 8, 2019

  Five undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Jose Coves - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: End-to-end Plural Coreference Resolution on TV Show Transcripts Shen Gao - Highest Ho…

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  Annual Awards 2019

  Apr 25, 2019

  Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Jose Coves (Senior): Outstanding Student Award - Zhengzhe Yang (Senior): Academic Excellence Award

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  Doctor of Philosophy 2018

  May 14, 2018

  A graduate from Emory NLP earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Informatics: Tomasz Jurczyk - Dissertation: Improving Question Answering by Bridging Linguistic Structures and Statistical Learning

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  Undergraduate Honors 2018

  May 8, 2018

  Five undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Jayeol Chun - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Dependency Analysis of Abstract Universal Structures in Korean and English Hang Jian…

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  Annual Awards 2018

  Apr 30, 2018

  Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Kaixin Ma (Senior): Trevor Evans Award - Jose Coves (Junior): Chair's Award

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  Undergraduate Honors 2017

  May 6, 2017

  Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Henry Chen - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Character Identification on Multi-party Dialogues Tarrek Shaban - Highest Honor in Com…

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  Annual Awards 2017

  Apr 25, 2017

  Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Henry Chen (Senior): Trevor Evans Award - Ethan Zhou (Junior): Chair's Award

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  Undergraduate Honors 2016

  May 8, 2016

  Two undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors: Meera Hahn - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: Advances in Methods and Evaluations for Distributional Semantic Models using Computati…

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  Annual Awards 2016

  Apr 26, 2016

  One undergraduate student from Emory NLP received academic awards from the Emory Computer Science Department: - Henry Chen (Junior): Chair's Award

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  Undergraduate Honor 2015

  May 8, 2015

  An undergraduate student from Emory NLP earned his degree with honors: Austin Blodgett - Highest Honor in Computer Science - Thesis: The Verbiverse: Creating a Verb Space with Comparative Methods of Distributional Seman…

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