I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the
University of British Columbia,
and a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute.
My research interests focus on natural language processing,
with the fundamental goal of building models capable of human-level understanding of natural
language.
I'm interested in computational semantics and pragmatics, commonsense reasoning, culturally-inclusive AI, vision and language, and NLP applications.
Before joining UBC, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen
Institute
for AI (AI2) and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer
Science & Engineering at the University of
Washington.
Prior to that, I did my PhD (2019), M.Sc. (2015), and B.Sc. (2013) in Computer Science in Bar-Ilan
University. I was part of the Natural Language Processing
lab
where I worked on lexical and compositional semantics.
Updates
| February 2025 | My nonfiction book Lost in Automatic Translation is coming out this summer! |
| December 2024 | Invited talk at the Workshop on Large Foundation Models for Educational Assessment, NeurIPS |
| August 2024 | Invited talk at the Human-Centered Large Language Modeling Workshop, ACL |
| June 2024 | Invited talk at the Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, NAACL |
| May 2024 | Invited talk at the Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective, LREC-COLING |
| August 2023 | New blog post: Tips for Writing NLP Papers |
| July 2023 | Invited talk at the Workshop on Narrative Understanding, ACL |
| May 2023 | Invited talk at the Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, EACL |
| October 2022 | I have been appointed as Canada CIFAR AI Chair! |
| February 2022 | In-person (!!) talk at UCSB |
| January 2022 | Invited talk at the MLOps Vancouver Summit |
| November 2021 | Invited talk at the Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, KR |
| August 2021 | Invited talk at the Multiword Expressions (MWE) workshop, ACL |
| June 2021 | Invited talk at the Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning (NALOMA) workshop, IWCS |
| June 2021 | Invited talk at the Deep Learning Inside Out (DeeLIO) workshop, NAACL |