The Grainger College of Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Tal August

Tal August
Tal August he/him/his
Assistant Professor

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Academic Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, UIUC, Urbana, IL. , August 2024- present
  • Young Investigator, Allen Institute for AI, Seattle, WA. , 2023-2024

Research Statement

Tal August's research is at the intersection of human computer interaction and natural language processing. He studies ways to personalize language to different people and builds tools to make this language adaptation automatic. The long term goal of his research is to improve our communication with one another and with technology.

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 498 HL3 (CS 498 HLG) - Human-LLM interaction
  • CS 498 HLU - Human-LLM Interaction
  • CS 598 TAL - Lang., Interfaces, and Comm.
  • CS 598 TAL - Language, Interfaces, and Comm

News Notes

  • 10/23/2026

    Siebel School is bringing significant NLP and AI expertise to the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Over 30 graduate students and 30 faculty are a part of the accepted 30 main conference papers, 25-plus COLM 2026 papers, and 20-plus findings papers. EMNLP is an international academic conference on natural language processing and AI, hosted by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) SIGDAT, a special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to natural language processing.

  • 3/25/2026

    Siebel School’s faculty and graduate students will make a big showing at the 2026 ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. “This year was a record year for the interactive computing research area for papers accepted,” says Tal August, CS assistant professor. Five papers received best paper or honorable mention among the 30 projects accepted, which included more than 20 papers plus workshops and posters. The conference, considered the leader for international conferences on human-computer interaction, takes place April 13-17, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain.