Dr. Kallirroi Georgila

Biography

Kallirroi Georgila is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. With a background in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgila has held various prestigious positions including Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, USA, and Research Fellow at the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Her research interests primarily focus on natural language dialogue processing, highlighting the integration of machine learning techniques such as reinforcement learning for effective dialogue policies, speech recognition, and expressive conversational speech synthesis. Georgila is dedicated to making natural language dialogue systems more human-like and robust, addressing errors and misunderstandings while adapting to different types of human users. She has actively participated in the academic community, serving in leadership roles on organizing and program committees for numerous conferences and workshops, including as Vice President of SIGdial, the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Currently, she serves as Action Editor for the Computational Linguistics journal and as Associate Editor for the Dialogue and Discourse journal.

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