Scholar
Helen Yannakoudakis
Google Scholar ID: B3WGvRsAAAAJ
Senior Lecturer, King’s College London
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,840
H-index
29
i10-index
42
Publications
20
Co-authors
26
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024, Senior Area Chair for ACL 2025, Senior Area Chair for NAACL 2024, Area Chair for ICLR 2024 and NeurIPS 2023.
- Area Chair for ACL 2020, EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021; Senior Program Committee Member for AAAI 2020.
- Team won Facebook's Hateful Memes Challenge (Phase 2, team Kingsterdam), $8K prize; presented solution at NeurIPS 2020.
- Recipient of Facebook Online Safety Benchmark Research Award.
- Paper on meta-learning for cross-lingual dependency parsing accepted at ACL 2022.
- Paper on lifelong language learning accepted at NeurIPS 2021.
- Invited speaker at AAAI 2021 Spring Symposium on AI for K-12 Education; keynote speaker at UK Speech 2019 and plenary speaker at ALTE 2017.
- Co-organized the first summer school on Machine Learning for Digital English Language Teaching (2017).
- Co-developed and released Write&Improve, a cloud-based automated writing assessment system for non-native English learners.
- Released browser extensions for abusive language detection on Twitter using deep neural networks.
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research Experience
- Former Affiliated Lecturer and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.
- Former Fellow and Director of Studies in Computer Science at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
- Former Newton Trust Teaching Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge.
- Served on the executive board of ACL SIG-EDU from 2016 to 2020 and co-organized the annual BEA workshop at NAACL/ACL.
- Currently developing commercial AI/NLP applications at Kinhub and iLexIR.
