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

My research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning. My group studies how to incorporate knowledge into language models, make expert reasoning learnable, and help agents plan in structured environments. We also study privacy risks in language and vision-language models. I also work on information extraction and contributed to early work on data-driven conversational agents, including models trained through reinforcement learning.


Recent Activities:
Alumni:
  • Mohit Raghavendra (M.S. - 2025 Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • 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)
  • Andrew Li (M.S. - 2024, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Media Coverage:
  • Our work measuring cultural biases in LLMs was covered by Venture Beat.
  • 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.