Dr. Lara Jean Martin
Assistant Professor · Tenure-Track
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department of Information Systems
College of Engineering and Information Technology
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About
Dr. Lara J. Martin (she/they) is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the CSEE department, researching human-centered artificial intelligence with a focus on natural language processing applications. They have worked in the areas of automated story generation, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools, AI for tabletop roleplaying games, speech processing, and affective computing—publishing in top-tier conferences such as AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, and IJCAI. They have also been featured in Wired and BBC Science Focus magazine. Previously, Dr. Martin was a 2020 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology.Research interests
computational creativity, interactive narrative, narrative generation & understanding, dialog systems & conversational agents, cognitive systems, augmentative & alternative communication (AAC), prosody & emotion (affective computing), speech synthesis (text-to-speech)Teaching interests
natural language processing, intro to AI, cognitive science, interactive fiction & text generation, neurosymbolic text generation, Social and Ethical Issues in Information TechnologyEducation
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Ph D, Human-Centered Computing
— Georgia Institute of Technology (2021) Neurosymbolic Automated Story Generation
- MS, Language Technologies — Carnegie Mellon University (2015)
- BS, Computer Science, Linguistics — Rutgers University — New Brunswick (2013)