Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
Scholar

Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Google Scholar ID: P-c9CsIAAAAJ
Cardiff University / TeIAS / Cambridge
Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingLexical SemanticsSemantic Representation
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
4,266
 
H-index
32
 
i10-index
61
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
31
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Received the 2023 AIJ Prominent Paper Award; has published papers in various international conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, etc.; served as a program committee member or area chair for multiple conferences, including being the General Chair of *SEM 2023, Senior Action Editor for ACL 2024, etc.; co-authored a book on embeddings in NLP.
Research Experience
  • Served as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering department of Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) from 2018 to 2020, teaching multiple graduate and undergraduate courses and supervising several graduate students; was a Research Associate at the Language Technology Lab of the University of Cambridge from 2015 to 2018, working on the intersection of NLP and Biomedical sciences.
Education
  • Completed his PhD at the Linguistic Computing Laboratory of Sapienza University of Rome, under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Navigli; was a Research Associate at the Language Technology Lab of the University of Cambridge, working on the PheneBank project funded by the UK's Medical Research Council, with Dr. Nigel Collier as the PI.
Background
  • Currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at Cardiff University. His primary research interest lies in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP), including lexical semantics, semantic representation and similarity, sense representation, word sense disambiguation, and ontology construction and alignment.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests not explicitly mentioned