Diversity in CL/NLP: My Stories/My Insights



Mona Diab, PH.D.

Research Scientist at Facebook AI in Seattle, WA, USA.

Full Professor of Computer Science at George Washington University (GW), Department of Compter Science.


Talk Blurb: In this talk Dr. Diab will share some of her experiences and insights as a minority in science education and the technology sector.


Bio: Mona Diab is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI in Seattle, WA, USA. She is also Professor of Computer Science, The George Washington University, where she is the Director of CARE4Lang NLP Lab. Her research interests include cross linguistic modeling and multilingual processing, computational lexical semantics, social media processing, information extraction & text analytics, machine translation, resource building, and computational socio-pragmatics. Mona has more than 200 scientific publications.

Acknowledgement: This project is sponsored by NSF under CNS-1551221 and CCF-1950297. Special thanks to the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics for its financial support. The University of Houston is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.