Research Interests
- Natural language processing
- Summarization
- Social media analysis
- Language generation
- Information extraction and retrieval
- Spoken language understanding
- Machine learning
- Data mining
- Data analytics and visualization
Other Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2013 – 2015
- Senior Research Scientist, Bosch Research, Palo Alto, California, 2011-2013
Professional Activities
- Area Chair, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
- Program Committee Member for: ACL 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, KDD 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, ICML 2015, EMNLP 2013, 2015, AAAI 2013, IJCAI 2013, ICASSP 2012, 2013, and others.
Honors & Awards
- Best Paper Finalist at the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2016
- Invited to participate in MIT Rising Stars in EECS (An Academic Career Workshop for nearly 60 top EECS women scholars in academia), 2015
- Special Performance Recognition Award, Bosch Research, 2012
- Eric Jonsson Distinguished Research Fellowship, 2007-11
- Academic Excellence Award, 2011
- The Aage and Margareta Moller Endowed Scholarship, 2010