Natural Language Processing research at the University of Illinois is spread out over a number of departments, and covers a wide range of topics. Please see the individual faculty and group home pages below for the details.
Events
NLP Reading Group
Join our weekly reading group to discuss the latest research papers in natural language processing.
Learn MoreNLP Seminars
Attend seminars featuring leading researchers and practitioners in the area. Subscribe to the nlp-seminars@lists.illinois.edu mailing list to stay updated.
View ScheduleMSLD 2026
Midwest Speech and Language Days returns to UIUC in 2026 for two days of research talks, posters, and networking.
Event DetailsSpecial Events
Check this space for our Workshops, Symposiums, and other special events throughout the year.
Also see the individual seminar schedules for specific departments (e.g. CS, linguistics).
Core Faculty
Tal August
Computer Science
Catherine Blake
School of Information Sciences
Jonathan Dunn
Linguistics
Margaret Fleck
Computer Science
Yue Guo
School of Information Sciences
Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Computer Science
Jiawei Han
Computer Science
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Julia Hockenmaier
Computer Science
Heng Ji
Computer Science
Halil Kilicoglu
School of Information Sciences
Bo Li
Computer Science
Ge Liu
Computer Science
Aleksandre Maskharashvili
Linguistics
Hao Peng
Computer Science
Gokhan Tur
Computer Science
Jiaxuan You
Computer Science
Chengxiang Zhai
Computer Science
Tong Zhang
Computer Science
Han Zhao
Computer Science
Affiliated Faculty
Minje Kim
Computer Science