Alan Ritter

Associate Professor
School of Interactive Computing
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Office: Coda 1157B
Email: alan.ritter@cc.gatech.edu
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=unXtH3IAAAAJ
Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Alan-Ritter/4655992


I am an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech (also affiliated with the Machine Learning Center). I do research on natural language processing. My research group investigates questions regarding robust models that work across many domains and languages, while requiring fewer labels, and making efficient use of computational resources. I am also interested in data-driven dialogue agents that safely and naturally converse on any topic.

I am recruiting Ph.D. students this year. I advise students in both our ML and CS Ph.D. programs. For current Georgia Tech students interested in research: please email me a copy of your resume, transcript, and a proposal of what you would like to work on together with me.


Recent Activities:
Media Coverage:
  • 3/2024 Our work measuring cultural biases in LLMs was covered by Venture Beat.
  • 2/2023 Quoted on the costs of large language models by Bloomberg.
  • Our EMNLP paper investigating neural chatbots' stance towards toxic comments was covered by TNW.
  • WIRED article covering our NAACL paper on analyzing percieved servierity of software vulerabilities reported on social media.
Recent Service:
  • Program Chair, NAACL 2025
  • Area Chair, EMNLP 2023, Information Extraction
  • Demo Chair, ACL 2023
  • Area Chair, ACL 2023, Information Extraction
  • Senior Area Chair, EMNLP 2022, Information Extraction
  • Senior Program Committee, AAAI 2022
  • Senior Area Chair, ACL 2022, Information Extraction
  • Senior Area Chair, EMNLP 2021, Computational Social Science
  • Area chair, ACL 2021, Information Extraction
  • Senior Area Chair, NAACL 2021, Machine Learning for NLP: Classification and Structured Prediction Models
  • Senior Area Chair, EMNLP 2020, Information Extraction
  • Area chair, ACL 2020, Information Extraction
  • Area chair, EMNLP 2019, Social Media and Computational Social Science
  • Area chair, ACL 2019, Information Extraction and Text Mining
Postdoctoral Researcher: Ph.D. Students: Undergraduate and M.S. Researchers:
  • Andrew Li
  • Mohit Raghavendra
Alumni:
  • Fan Bai (Ph.D. 2023, Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. 2020, Ohio State University)
  • Yang Chen (Ph.D. 2024, Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Sandesh Swamy (M.S. - 2017, Ohio State University)
  • Jeniya Tabassum (Ph.D. - 2020, Ohio State University)
  • Shi Zong (Ph.D. - 2020, Ohio State University)
  • Vedaant Shah (M.S. - 2024, Georgia Institute of Technology)