SALT Lab
Social and Language Technologies (SALT) lab studies socially aware NLP. We are part of the Stanford NLP Group.Broadly, we research the social aspects of human language (e.g., what is said, who says it, in what context, for what goals), via methods of natural language processing, deep learning, and machine learning as well as theories in social science and linguistics, with the implications of developing interventions to facilitate human-human and human-machine communication.
Current Members

Postdoc

Postdoc
Co-advise w/ Emma Brunskill

Postdoc
Co-advise w/ David C. Parkes

(Incoming) Postdoc

PhD

PhD

PhD
Co-advise w/ Neha Kumar

PhD

PhD
Co-advise w/ Amy Bruckman

PhD

PhD
Co-advise w/ Michael Bernstein

PhD
Co-advise w/ Chris Potts

PhD, Co-advise
w/ Sashank Varma

Master

Master

Master

Master

(Visiting) Master

Undergraduate

Undergraduate
Alumni
- Ian Stewart: PhD (co-advised with Jacob Eisenstein, 2020)-> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Yuwei Wu: Intern (2020)-> PhD @ CMU
- Jacob Beel: Master (2020)-> Diveplane Corporation
- Aastha Agrawal: Master (2021)-> Salesforce
- Kunal Chawla: Master (2021)-> Microsoft Research
- Yujiao Gao: Undergraduate (2021) -> NCR Corporation
- Vincent Lieng: Undergraduate (2021) -> Master @ UC Berkeley
- Anushk Mittal: Master (2021)-> Startup
- Jingfeng Yang: Master (2021) -> Amazon
- Jon Saad-Falcon: Undergraduate (2021) -> PhD @ Stanford
- Anish Thite: Undergraduate (2021) -> Master @ GaTech
- Haard Shah: Master (2021) -> 7 Cups of Tea
- Rohit Sridhar: Master (2022) -> PhD @ GaTech
- Aaron Reich: Master (2022) -> Alpine Health Systems
- Irene Lee: Undergraduate (2022) -> Master @ GaTech
- Omar Shaikh: Undergraduate (Co-advise with Polo Chau, 2022) -> PhD @ Stanford
- Tony Wang: Master (2023) -> PhD @ Cornell
- Oscar Liu: Undergraduate (2023) -> PhD @ UW
- Shang-Ling Hsu: Master (2023) -> PhD @ USC
- Tony Tu: Master (2023) -> PhD @ GaTech
- Raj Sanjay Shah: Master (2023) -> PhD @ GaTech
- Taiwei Shi: Undergraduate (2023) -> PhD @ USC
- Hongxin Zhang: Undergraduate (2023) -> PhD @ UMass Amherst
- Alex Gurung: Master (2023) -> PhD @ Edinburgh
- Aryan Pariani: Undergraduate (2023) -> Master @ GaTech
- Vaibhav Kumar: Master (2023) -> AI/ML Engineer @ Replit.com
Funding
- We would like to thank the following sponsors and funding agencies for supporting our research: NSF, Amazon, Cisco, DARPA, Facebook, Google, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft Research, NVIDIA, ONR, Russell Sage Foundation, Salesforce, Stanford HAI, and Stanford Impact Lab.