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Joyce Y. Chai is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University. Her research interests span natural language processing, embodied AI, and human-AI collaboration. Dr. Chai's current work explores the intersection of language, perception, and action to enable situated communication for embodied agents. She is the director of the Situated Language Embodied Dialogue (SLED) research group at the Michigan AI Lab and is affiliated with the Michigan Robotics Institute. In addition, Dr. Chai has served as the Associate Director for the Michigan Institute for Data, AI, and Society (MIDAS) from 2023 to 2025. She has contributed to the field as an executive board member and Program Co-Chair for several conferences, including ACL 2020. Dr. Chai has received various accolades, including the NSF Career Award and multiple paper awards, such as the Long Paper Award at ACL 2010 and Outstanding Paper Awards at EMNLP 2021 and ACL 2023. She is also a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science