Professor Dr. Ismini Lourentzou

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Ismini Lourentzou is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she leads the Perception and Language (PLAN) Lab. Her research focuses on multimodal machine learning, particularly at the intersection of vision and language with limited supervision, as well as applications in healthcare and embodied AI. Ismini has served on organizing committees for NeurIPS and has held editorial roles for various journals and conferences. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). She earned her PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, having previously been an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech. She is currently teaching courses like Text Mining and Independent Study.

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