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Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and their applications in Medicine and Healthcare.
Recent Academic Services:
Recent Academic Services:
Senior Area chair for NAACL 2024
Area chair for NeurIPS 2023, ACL 2023
Co-organizing the NeurIPS-NAML workshop (2023)
Co-organizing the MEDIQA shared tasks (2019-2024)
Co-organizing the ImageCLEF VQA-Med and Caption tasks (2019-2024)
Invited Talks:
Invited Talks:
Insights from the Organization of International Challenges on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Question Answering. Natural Language Processing and Data Mining for Scientific Text (SciNLP) Workshop. June 25, 2020. SLIDES VIDEO
NLP Methods for Medical Question Answering. Philips Annual Artificial Intelligence Conference. May 19, 2020. SLIDES VIDEO
Multimodal Question Answering in the Medical Domain. Language Technologies Institute (LTI), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). April 24, 2020. SLIDES
Medical Question Answering: Dealing with the complexity and specificity of consumer health questions and visual questions. Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Seattle, Washington. November 12, 2019. SLIDES VIDEO
Neural Approaches to Helping Consumers Finding Answers to Health-related Information Needs (CHiQA Team). NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C. November 6, 2019.
Methods and Challenges in Consumer Health Question Answering. IBM Research Almaden, San Jose, California. March 27, 2019.
Awards & Fellowships:
Awards & Fellowships:
2018: Service Group Award, in recognition of greatly improving the user experience in the Open-i and MedPix systems, NLM, USA.
2017: Service Group Award, in recognition of excellent performance in deep learning-based visual ontology to support Open-i, NLM, USA.
2008: Doctoral Fellowship from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, France.
Previous Positions:
Previous Positions:
2015 - 2021: Researcher/Staff Scientist at the NLM /NIH, USA.
2012 - 2015: Researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg.
& Part-time lecturer at Nancy-Charlemagne Institute of Technology (IUT), France.
2008 - 2012: PhD Candidate at LIMSI-CNRS Lab, France.
Education:
Education:
2012: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Paris-Sud University, France. "Finding Precise Answers to Medical Questions: The Question-Answering System MEANS" [PDF]
2008: Research Master’s Degree in Computer Science (first in my year), Paris 13 University (Institut Galilée), France.
2007: Software Engineering Degree, National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Tunisia.
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