Amanda Stent Assistant Professor Address Departments of Computer Science Computer Science Building 1418 Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400 Phone: (631) 632-8447 Fax: (631) 632-8334 E-mail:  stent@cs.sunysb.edu Education Houghton College, NY, Mathematics and Music, B.A.  summa cum laude, 1996 University of Rochester, Ph.D., 2001 Previous Appointments AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ Past and Present Research Interests Natural language and multimodal generation Dialog systems Theories of discourse Support by Funding Agencies and Industry  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence Courses Taught CSE 333: User Interface Development CSE 507: Introduction to Computational Linguistics CSE 542: Speech Processing Publications 3 journal publications 10 conference proceedings Research Facilities Natural language processing lab