Position
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Office
216 Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Building
Contact Information
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Email: laramar@umbc.edu
Website: https://laramartin.net
Education
PhD in Human-Centered Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021
MS in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2015
BS in Computer Science & Linguistics, Rutgers University—New Brunswick, 2013
Research Areas
Natural Language Generation (NLG), Neurosymbolic AI, Human-centered AI, Computational Creativity, Speech Processing
Publications
Biography
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 working with Dr. Chris Callison-Burch. She earned her PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she worked with Dr. Mark Riedl. She also has a MS in Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Computer Science & Linguistics from Rutgers University—New Brunswick.