Workshops and Tutorials

Services

  • Program Committee: NAACL, ACL, EMNLP, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR
  • Session Chair: EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021
  • Area Chair: AAAI 2022, AACL 2022, EMNLP 2022, EACL 2023, NLPCC 2023, EMNLP 2023, AACL 2023, EACL 2024

PhD thesis

  • Zhiying Jiang, PhD Defense (July 2023)
  • Yuqing Xie, PhD Defense (August 2023)
  • Minghan Li, Comprehensive Exam II (August 2023)

Funding and Grants

  • CIFAR AI Chair Award
    • Title: Accessing Diverse Web Knowledge with Natural Language Interface
    • Years: 2022 - 2027
    • Amount: 725,000 CAD
  • NSERC Discovery
    • Title: Building Semiparametric Models to Decouple Knowledge from Computation
    • Years: 2023 - 2028
    • Amount: 12,500 CAD
  • Mitacs Accelerate
    • Title: Question Answering over Long Clinical Documents
    • Years: 2024 - 2026
    • Amount: 90,000 CAD
  • CIFAR AI Catalyst
    • Title: Generating Images with Multimodal Instruction
    • Years: 2024 - 2026
    • Amount: 100,000 CAD
  • National Research Council Canada - AI4D Funding
    • Title: Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Foundation Models
    • Years: 2024 - 2026
    • Amount: 118,000 CAD
  • National Research Council Canada - New Beginning
    • Title: Building More Efficient Visual Generative Models
    • Years: 2025 - 2026
    • Amount: 25,000 CAD
  • CIFAR Solution Network - Safer AI for the Global South
    • Title: A Citizen-Centered Approach to Co-Creating Dialect Bias Benchmarks, Mitigation Tools, and Policy Solutions
    • Years: 2026 - 2028
    • Amount: 700,000 CAD
  • CFI-JELF
    • Title: Enriching the Linguistic Diversity of Open Language Models
    • Years: 2026 - 2030
    • Amount: 336,000 CAD