Published multiple papers on AI-generated text detection, understanding and countering stereotypes. Served as a reviewer for major NLP and AI conferences and journals, and as area chair and senior area chair for ACL-2025, NAACL-2022, EACL-2021, and *SEM-2018.
Research Experience
Developed several text classification systems (for sentiment analysis and health-related social media mining) that ranked first in international shared task competitions. Co-organized the 2019 Canada-United Kingdom Symposium on Ethics in AI, several graduate student symposia at Canadian conferences on AI, and several shared tasks at the international workshops on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval).
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa (Canada); M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Moscow State University (Russia).
Background
Senior research scientist, primarily working in the areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Research interests include ethics and fairness in NLP, sentiment and emotion analysis, text classification, social media analysis, and medical informatics.