Motivated by the rapidly growing NLP community, we recognize that many junior students join the field each year. Yet, not everyone has equal access to resources or guidance to help them navigate a smooth research and career path in NLP. These differences are often amplified by region, culture, and other factors that make opportunities unevenly distributed. Inspired by the one-time mentorship sessions at NLP conferences, we asked ourselves: what if mentorship could be available all year round, and accessible to students everywhere? That question gave rise to our initiative.
Organizers
Prof. Zhijing Jin
Assistant Professor at University of Toronto
Prof. Oana Ignat
Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University
Weijia Shi
PhD Candidate at University of Washington
Ziqiao Ma
PhD Candidate at University of Michigan
Prof. Rada Mihalcea
Professor at University of Michigan
Prof. Mohit Bansal
Assoc. Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill
Dr. V. Prabhakaran
Research Scientist at Google
Previous Organizers
Tejas Vaidhya
Incoming MSc at Mila
Abhay Zala
Undergraduate at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill