Dr. Smaranda Muresan

Biography

Smaranda Muresan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she also works as a Research Scientist at the Data Science Institute. Her research primarily concentrates on human-centric Natural Language Processing, emphasizing social good and responsible computing. Muresan develops theory-guided knowledge-aware computational models aimed at understanding and generating language within various contexts, including visual, social, multilingual, and multicultural settings. Her work finds applications in computational social science, education, public health, and creativity support. Muresan's research interests encompass explainable models and frameworks for human-AI collaboration. She has served as a board member for the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) from 2020 to 2021 and co-founded and co-chaired the New York Academy of Sciences’ Annual Symposium on NLP/Dialog/Speech from 2019 to 2020. Additionally, she has held the position of Program Co-Chair for SIGDIAL 2020 and ACL 2022.

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