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Minnesota NLP

We are an interdisciplinary research group drawing from linguistics, the social sciences, and cognitive science to build state-of-the-art AI that supports expert work in law, science, education, and journalism.

Led by Dongyeop Kang and Alexander Spangher (joining Fall 2026) in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

People

Ph.D., Postdoc & Visiting Alumni

Masters & Undergraduate Alumni

Lab Life

Shuyu Gan and Young-Jun Lee at dinner in San Francisco
Shuyu and Young-Jun in SF
Andy Phu presenting the SERUM poster at COLM 2026
Andy at COLM
Karin de Langis with her committee after her Ph.D. defense
Karin’s Ph.D. defense (Sep 2026)
Lab members at ACL 2026 in San Diego
ACL 2026, San Diego
Lab picnic
Lab picnic (April 2026)
End-of-semester gathering
End-of-semester gathering (Fall 2025)
Reunion at CoLM
Reunion at CoLM

Funding

Selected Publications

See the complete publication list.