Technical University Darmstadt and head of the UKP Lab
Iryna Gurevych is a German computer scientist. She is Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt and Director of Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab. She has a strong background in information extraction, semantic text processing, machine learning and innovative applications of NLP to social sciences and humanities.Iryna Gurevych has published over 300 publications in international conferences and journals and is member of programme and conference committees of more than 50 high-level conferences and workshops (ACL, EACL, NAACL, etc.). She is the holder of several awards, including the Lichtenberg-Professorship Career Award und the Emmy-Noether Career Award (both in 2007). In 2021 she received the first LOEWE-professorship of the LOEWE programme. She has been selected as a ACL Fellow 2020 for her outstanding work in natural language processing and machine learning and is the Vice-president-elect of the ACL since 2021.
University of Copenhagen
Anna Rogers is an assistant professor in the Center for Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen. She is currently also a visiting researcher with the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (Japan). Her main research area is Natural Language Processing, in particular model analysis and evaluation of natural language understanding systems.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Heng Ji is a professor at Computer Science Department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her B.A. and M. A. in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University. Her research interests focus on Natural Language Processing, especially on Information Extraction and Knowledge Base Population. She is selected as "Young Scientist" and a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Computing by the World Economic Forum in 2016 and 2017. The awards she received include "AI's 10 to Watch" Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013, NSF CAREER award in 2009, PACLIC2012 Best paper runner-up, "Best of ICDM2013" paper award, "Best of SDM2013" paper award, ACL2018 Best Demo paper nomination, Google Research Award in 2009 and 2014, IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012 and 2014 and Bosch Research Award in 2014-2018. She has coordinated the NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010. She is the associate editor for IEEE/ACM Transaction on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. She has served as the Program Committee Co-Chair of NAACL-HLT2018, NLP-NABD2018, NLPCC2015, CSCKG2016 and CCL2019, and senior area chair for many conferences. She has led several multi-institute research efforts including DARPA DEFT Tinker Bell team of seven universities and DARPA KAIROS RESIN team of six universities. She is the task leader of the U.S. ARL projects on information fusion and knowledge networks construction between 2009-2019. She is invited by the Secretary of the Air Force and AFRL to join Air Force Data Analytics Expert Panel to inform the Air Force Strategy 2030.
Northwestern University and Allen Institute for AI, USA
Doug is a Senior Research Scientist at AI2. He is currently on leave from Northwestern University, where he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science. His research focuses on information extraction, natural language processing, and machine learning. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with family, exploring the outdoors, and watching movies.