AI leader with experience in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and AI. Heading a team of AI engineers and scientists. Leading high-impact agile, cross-functional, distributed teams for AI automation across the company’s flagship products. Supervising the development of Generative AI technologies from foundations to operations. Creating and executing technology roadmaps with cross-divisional collaboration. Setting priority growth areas, hiring, and mentoring staff. Leading new innovations in AI, creating intellectual property, publishing in international conferences. Providing international AI thought leadership via invited panels.

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My CV provides a brief overview of my work experience.

Professional Leadership

Panels, Talks

• NAACL 2024 panel on effect of LLMs in education
• Panelist: Women in AI event in 2022
• Panelist: Women in AI: Lead by example (hosted by ETS Canada)
• Multiple presentations to potential clients, ETS partners, Government agencies and management as subject matter expert or head of AI.
• Multiple research presentations within ETS (10+)
• Wrote multiple ETS-wide AI blogs on topics of automated scoring and content generation.
• Invited Talk: Discourse-level Opinion Analysis (2009). University of Maryland, College Park and at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India

Organizing Committee, Program Committee, Panels

• NSF review panel (2021 and 2023)
• Organizer TextGraphs Workshop (2010, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
• Area Chair at AAAI (2021, 2022, 2024)
• Senior Area Chair for Sentiment Analysis and Argumentation Mining (ACL 2020)
• Workshop Chair (NAACL 2019)
• Area Chair for Sentiment Analysis and Argumentation Mining (ACL 2019)
• Area Chair for Sentiment Analysis and Argumentation Mining (NAACL 2018)
• Childcare Grant Co-ordinator (EMNLP 2018)
• Student Research Workshop Faculty Advisor (NAACL 2018)
• Area Chair for Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining (COLING 2016)
• Handbook Chair (EMNLP 2016)
• Vice President of Women in Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh (WiCS) (2009-2010)

Advisory Board, Editorial Board

• Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Writing Analytics (2016-present).
• Advisory: SALTS (Rutgers Laboratory for the Study of Applied Language Technology and Society) (2011).

Mentoring and Leadership

• Architected (with a collaborator) a new child-care policy for an international ACL conference (EMNLP 2018) to save costs and increase outreach. This policy and method were later adopted by other international ACL conferences (NAACL 2019, EMNLP 2019).
• Student Research Workshop (2019) Mentored Students in writing scientific writing (pre-submission mentoring)
• NAACL (2019) Mentored early-career researchers and led mentoring discussions during the conference.

Publications & Patents

I have over 50 patents and publications.

Please refer to my Google Scholar page for the full list of ~50 publications (AAAI, ACL, EMNLP etc.) and granted patents.

Please refer to the Google Patent page for a full list of my granted patents.

Service

Journal Reviewer

• Computational Linguistics (CL) Journal (standing reviewer 2020 - present)
• Artificial Intelligence (2023, 2022)
• Journal of Writing Analytics (2016 - present)
• Journal of AI in Education (AIED) (2016)
• Discourse and Dialog (2019)
• Language Assessment Quarterly (2019)
• Journal of Computational Linguistics (CL) (2018, 2014, 2013)
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFC) (2017, 2013, 2011)
• IEEE Intelligent Systems (2010)
• Emerging Applications of Natural Language Processing: Concepts and New Research (2010)

Conferences (PC Member/Reviewer)

• ACL (2018, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008)
• EMNLP (2022, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007)
• NAACL (2013, 2010)
• EACL (2014, 2023)
• COLING (2016, 2014, 2010)
• LREC (2016, 2014)
• IJCNLP (2013)
• ACII (2017)
• LSDSem (2017, 2015)
• Uphill Battles in NLP (2016)
• BEA (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2020)
• SAAIP (2016, 2013, 2011)
• Student Research Workshop (SRW) (2015)
• TextGraphs (2011)
• MLG (2010)
• NESCAI (2008, 2007)
• NAACL Demo (2019)
• COLING Demo (2014)
• ETS Research Report Series (2013 - present)

Contact Me

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