Joyce Chai Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering 3115 Engineering Building Michigan State University

Joyce Y. Chai

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
3115 Engineering Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Office phone: 1-517-432-9239
jchai AT cse DOT msu DOT edu

I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Duke University . Before joining MSU in January 2003, I was a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where I conducted research on multimodal and natural language conversational systems with my colleagues at Intelligent Multimedia Interaction Group and Conversational Systems Group .

Teaching

Fall 2008: CSE440: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2008: CSE891: Semi-supervised Learning for Computational Linguistics
Spring 2008: CSE260, Discrete Structures in Computer Science
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Research

I am broadly interested in multimodal conversation systems, human machine communication, natural language processing, and intelligent user interfaces. I am also affiliated with MSU Cognitive Science Program. My current work involves context modeling (e.g., non-verbal modalities, interaction discourse) for language processing.

I am directing Language and Interaction Research (LAIR) Group, a part of LINKS laboratory at MSU.