PCs, Talks, Awards
Invited Talks
- Keynote Speaker | "How Many Different Ways Could You Tell a Story about a Sequence of Images? Procedural Expression for Narrative and Dialogue Generation and Visual Storytelling" at The 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'20)
- Keynote Speaker | "Where to next? Situated Dialogue with Robots for Search and Navigation" at Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial’20)
Program Commitees
- Workshop Co-Chair | Games and Natural Language Processing (GAMNLP'20) at LREC 2020
- Special Session Co-Chair | Special Session on Situated Dialogue with Virtual Agents and Robots (RoboDial’20) at SIGDIAL 2020
- Session Chair | Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial’20)
- Reviewer | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’20)
- Reviewer | Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’20)
- Reviewer | Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’20)
- Reviewer | International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS'20)
2020
- Workshop Co-Chair | Storytelling Workshop (StoryNLP'19) at ACL 2019
- Workshop Co-Chair | Games and Natural Language Processing (GAMNLP'19) at FDG 2019
- Publications Co-Chair | North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'19)
- Area Chair, Generation | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'19
- Reviewer | North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'19)
- Reviewer | Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'19)
- Reviewer | Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL’19)
2019
- Publications Co-Chair | North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'18)
- Special Session Co-Chair | Special Session on Physically Situated Dialogue (RoboDIAL) at SIGDIAL 2018
- Reviewer | North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'18)
- Reviewer | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'18)
- Reviewer | Storytelling Workshop at NAACL (StoryNLP'18)
- Reviewer | Student Research Workshop at NAACL (SRW'18)
- Reviewer | Joint workshop of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT'18) and Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED'18)
2018
- Reviewer | International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS'17)
- Reviewer | Intelligent Narrative Technologies Workshop (INT'17)
- Reviewer | International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'17)
2017
Awards
- Top Reviewer, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2018)
- Outstanding Reviewer, Association for Computational Linguistics (2018)
- ARCS Foundation Scholar (2015 - 2016)
- Nuance Communications Fellowship (2014 - 2015)
- Baskin Family Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz (2014)
- Regents Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz (2012)
- James D. Rozics Computer Science Medal, Loyola University (2011)
- Alice M. Lage Memorial Scholarship Recipient, Loyola University (2011)
- Junior Computer Science Achievement Award, Loyola University (2010)
- Hauber Summer Science Research Fellowship Recipient, Loyola University (2009)
- First Year Computer Science Achievement Award, Loyola University (2008)
- Dean’s List, Loyola University (2007 - 2011)
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