James Finch

James Finch received BS in Computer Science and Psychology from Michigan State University in 2018 and is currently pursing PhD in Computer Science and Informatics at Emory University (advisor: Jinho Choi).

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Semantic Scholar

Research

• Papers with Emory NLP
• Seminars at Emory NLP

Projects

• Contextual Understanding in Human-to-Bot Conversations (01/2023 ~ Present)
• STDM-based Social Chatbot for College Students (05/2022 ~ 05/2023)
• Emory-Alexa AI Collaboration (09/2021 ~ 08/2022)
• Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 (09/2020 ~ 08/2021)
• Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3 (09/2019 ~ 08/2020)

Achievements

• Leader of the Emora team who advanced to the Finals at the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 (07/2021)
• Leader of the Emora team who won the 1st-place at the Alexa Prize Grand Challenge 3 (08/2020)
• Recipient of the George W. Woodruff Fellowship 2018 (09/2018 ~ 05/2023)