This page lists people who teach in the online HLT MS program. For a list of faculty involved in natural language processing (NLP) research at the University of Arizona, see this link.

Core Faculty

Gus Hahn-Powell

Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Arizona. Professor Hahn-Powell is the founding director of the online HLT MS program, as well as the Graduate Certificate in Natural Language Processing, and holds an appointment in the Cognitive Science Program. He is a core contributor to numerous information extraction and knowledge assembly systems which hybridize linguistic rules and statistical methods. His research interests center around machine reading for scientific discovery and in building systems to scour the literature, analyze findings, and synthesize discoveries to generate novel hypotheses. You may schedule an appointment with him using this link. (Professor Hahn-Powell will be on leave in Spring 2025.)

Sandiway Fong

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. Professor Fong directs the in-person HLT MS program and holds appointments in the Cognitive Science Program. His recent research focuses on a computer implementation of a model of syntax within the Minimalist Program.

Mike Hammond

Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. Professor Hammond holds appointments in the Cognitive Science Program and the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program. His research is in the areas of phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and poetic meter.

Eric Jackson

Assistant Professor of Practice, Linguistics, University of Arizona. Professor Jackson teaches in the online HLT MS program and is the director of the online HLT MS program for the 2024-25 academic year. His background includes community-oriented efforts to address the linguistic needs of low-resource language communities and help them develop and maintain the kinds of NLP tools that each community would prioritize. He is available to answer questions about the program by email and in online meetings. You may schedule an appointment with him using this link.

Instructors