Something maybe about who to contact or a contact email that gets forwarded to all of us?
If you would like to contact the team please email user-centered-nlp@googlegroups.com.
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Xiaolei Huang (xiaolei.huang@memphis.edu) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. His research interest is in natural language processing, deep learning, and user modeling. He focuses on developing transfer learning methodologies to enhance model robustness and personalization. His research has broad applications in public health including suicide prevention, alcoholism diagnosis, and vaccination surveillance.
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Lucie Flek (lucie.flek@uni-marburg.de) is an Associate Professor at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, leading the research group on Conversational AI and Social Analytics (CAISA). Lucie's interests lie in the area of user representation learning for social NLP applications and for dialog systems. In her previous academic work, e.g. at the University of Pennsylvania and UCL, she has been focusing on psychological and social insights into stylistic variation. She has been serving as Area Chair for Computational Social Sciences at multiple ACL/NAACL/EMNLP conferences, as a review editor in several NLP-oriented journals, and as a workshop chair at ECIR 2022. In the past, she co-organized the workshops on Stylistic Variation (NAACL) and Widening NLP.
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Silvio Amir (s.amir@northeastern.edu) is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and a core faculty member of the Institute for Experiential AI and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University. His research develops methods for tasks involving subjective, personalized or user-level inferences (e.g. opinion mining and digital phenotyping) and aims to improve the reliability, interpretability and fairness of predictive models and analytics derived from personal and user generated data.
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Diyi Yang (diyi.yang@cc.gatech.edu) is an assistant professor at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on computational social science, user centric language generation, and learning with limited and noisy text data. She co-organized the Widening NLP (WiNLP) workshops at NAACL 2018 and ACL 2019, and has served as area chairs for NAACL, EMNLP and ACL.
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Charles Welch (welchc@staff.uni-marburg.de) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Marburg in Germany. He recently received his PhD from the University of Michigan where he studied personalization in the context of language modeling, dialog systems, and word embeddings. He is working on controllable generation and how to apply language models for mental health and misinformation applications.
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Ramit Sawhney (ramitsawhney@sharechat.co) is a lead AI scientist at ShareChat AI, India and also a research collaborator at the University of Marburg, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Southern Carolina. His research focuses on NLP-based user representation learning, ethical and privacy oriented aspects of user generated text modeling for mental health, and computational social science. On the industrial front at ShareChat AI, Ramit leads the user personalization team for generating recommendations for users on the ShareChat and Moj, Indian apps for over 100 million users per day. Ramit has organized the NLP for Social Good workshops at IEEE BigMM in the past, and has served as a program committee member for ACL, EMNLP, NAACL along with AI conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, UAI, AISTATS, WWW, WSDM, etc.
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Franck Dernoncourt (dernonco@adobe.com) is an NLP researcher at Adobe Research at San Jose. He received his PhD in machine learning from MIT, co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed research publications, filed over 50 patents and received 3 best paper awards. His research interests include neural networks and natural language processing.
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