Ryan Ka Yau Lai

Assistant Professor

Education

Education:

PhD in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (2025)

MA in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara (2021)

BA in General Linguistics and Statistics, University of Hong Kong (2019)

Research

Areas of Interest:

Computational Linguistics

Corpus Methods

Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis

Semantics

Syntax and Morphology

Articles Featuring Ryan Ka Yau Lai

Faculty member Dr. Ryan Lai featured in new article about AI and human conversation

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 - 10:21am

What makes a conversation truly human? As AI tools like ChatGPT become part of our everyday lives, questions about language, context, and communication have never been more important.

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New LING course focused on conversational AI being offered this fall

Friday, May 15, 2026 - 14:46pm

Graduate Committees:

Mayee Yeh

M.A. Student

mayee.yeh@uga.edu

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Ryan Ka Yau Lai

Faculty member Dr. Ryan Lai featured in new article about AI and human conversation

New LING course focused on conversational AI being offered this fall

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Graduate Committees:

Mayee Yeh

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