Speakers

Prof. Rada Mihalcea Professor, University of Michigan

Rada is professor at University of Michigan. Her research interests are in Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Processing, Computational Social Sciences.

Saif M. Mohammad Senior Research Scientist, National Research Council Canada

Dr. Saif M. Mohammad is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada (NRC). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Before joining NRC, Saif was a Research Associate at the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests are in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially Lexical Semantics, Emotions in Language, Sentiment Analysis, Computational Creativity, Fairness in NLP, Psycholinguistics, and Information Visualization. He has published over 100 scientific articles (journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers). He has served in various capacities at prominent journals and conferences, including: action editor for Computational Linguistics, senior action editor for ACL Rolling review, chair of the Canada--UK symposium on Ethics in AI, co-chair of SemEval 2017-19 (the largest platform for semantic evaluations), workshops co-chair for ACL 2020, co-organizer of WASSA 2017 and 2018 (a sentiment analysis workshop), and area chair for ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP (in the areas of sentiment analysis, lexical semantics, and fairness in NLP).

Soujanya Poria Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Soujanya hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science. His main areas of research interest are NLP and sentiment analysis. At present, He work as an assistant professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore. He is also part of the Institute of High-Performance Computing (IHPC), ASTAR as a senior scientist. Before joining SUTD, He worked at NTU where he was awarded the prestigious NTU presidential postdoctoral fellowship.

Prof. Mohit Bansal Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

Dr. Mohit Bansal is the John R. & Louise S. Parker Associate Professor and the Director of the MURGe-Lab (in the UNC-NLP Group) in the Computer Science department at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. Prior to this, he was a research assistant professor (3-year endowed position) at TTI-Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of California at Berkeley (where he was advised by Dan Klein) and his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in 2008. His research expertise is in natural language processing and multimodal machine learning, with a particular focus on grounded and embodied semantics, human-like language generation and Q&A/dialogue, and interpretable and generalizable deep learning.

Barbara Plank Professor, IT University of Copenhagen

Jian Su Department Head, NLP@A*STAR I2R, Singapore

Malihe Alikhani Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

She is Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh. Her primary research interests are in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science with broader interests in Computational Social Sciences.

Kalika Bali Researcher, Microsoft

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran Senior Research Scientist, Google

Mrinmaya Sachan Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich

Lingpeng Kong Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong

Priyanka Agrawal ML manager, Booking.com

Scott Hale Professor, Oxford

elisa Ferracane NLP Research Scientist, Abridge

Tim Baldwin Melbourne Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne

Luciana Benotti Associate Professor, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Dirk Hovy Associate professor, Bocconi University

Min-Yen Kan Associate Professor, National University of Singapore Singapore

Min-Yen is an associate professor with research interests that span digital libraries, natural language processing and information retrieval. Specific interests include: scholarly digital libraries, definitional QA, statistical MT, text summarization, verb analysis, optimizing access to scientific literature, web crawling, and combining search and browsing user interfaces under human-computer interaction. He is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE, and a member of the ACL, NUS' NGS, and PREMIA. He is graduated with my Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Sebastian Ruder Research scientist, Google

Sebastian is a research scientist at Google based in London, UK. Before that he was a research scientist at DeepMind. He completed my PhD in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning at the Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics, while working as a research scientist at Dublin-based text analytics startup AYLIEN.